RED-WINGED STARLING 



RED - WINGED BLACKBIRD RED - WINGED MAIZE - BIRD- 

 MARSH BLACKBIRD SWAMP BLACKBIRD. 



PLATE XCVL FIGURE II. 



Agelaau plumieats, .... NEWTON. 



Sturnus pradatorius, . . . LUBBOCK. WILSON. 

 Icterus phanicurus, . . . BUONAPARTE. 



THIS bird has been found about a dozen times in the 

 British Isles. It is common throughout the United 

 States. The English specimens have most probably escaped 

 from confinement. 



About the middle of April the birds pair, and nidifica- 

 tion commences the last week in April, or the beginning 

 of May, or even later, according to the latitude in which 

 they happen to be. 



The nest is placed variously in a bush or tree, a few 

 feet from the ground, or in a tussock of rushes or tuft of 

 grass, or even, and not unfrequently, on the ground. It is 

 composed of rushes and long tough grass, and lined with 

 finer portions of the latter ; the rushes are interlaced among 

 the surrounding twigs, if in a tree, or among the rushes, 

 if on the ground, in which latter case the whole structure 

 is less elaborate than in the former. Several nests are 

 often built in the immediate neighbourhood of each other. 



