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sometimes difficult to distinguish be- 

 tween them. 



BRONZED AND PURPLE CRACKLES 



There are two kinds of Grackles, the 

 Purple and Bronzed, but it is exceed- 

 ingly difficult to tell them apart, and 

 it is wise for beginners not to try. 

 Grackles ' always associate with one 

 another, one hardly ever seeing one 

 alone. They migrate, spend the winter 

 and nest in flocks. Their note is a 

 guttural cluck. They occasionally make 

 themselves objectionable by eating the 

 eggs of small birds. At a distance the 

 color of the Crackle is apparently black, 

 but on nearer approach we find that 

 they are marked by the most beautiful 

 iridescent colors, green, blue, purple, 

 and bronze. 



