Appendix. 



94. Yellow-headed Blackbird ; Xanthocephalus 

 xanthocephalus (Bonap.). 



Head all around and breast bright yellow; in full- 

 plumaged males the yellow sometimes wanting 

 or obscure on head. Wing-patch white, the 

 rest of the body black. Female brown, with 

 dull yellow throat-patch. Length of male ten 

 inches or more, female smaller. Common in 

 restricted marshy regions, both in the interior 

 valleys and in the mountains. 



95. Red-winged Blackbird; Agelaius phceniceus 

 (Linn.). 



The male black, strikingly ornamented with scarlet 

 shoulder patch. This is bordered with a bufFy 

 or pale brownish band. The female streaked 

 brownish and white. Length about eight and 

 a half inches. Breeds to the north of California 

 and on the eastern slope of the Sierras, winter- 

 ing in California. 



96. Bicolored Blackbird ; Agelaius gubernator 

 californicus Nelson. 



Almost identical with the preceding, but the buff 

 border to the epaulets narrow or obscure. The 

 common red-winged blackbird of California, 

 breeding in great numbers in marshy places. 



97. Tricolored Blackbird ; Agelaius tricolor 

 (Nutt.). 



Similar to the preceding, but black more glossy 

 bluish. The red shoulder patch is of a deeper 

 carmine hue and bordered with white. In 

 winter the back is mottled with brown and the 

 white of the shoulders becomes buff. 



