BED-WINGED STABLING. 



RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. RED-WINGED MAIZE-BIRD. MARSH BLACKBIRD. 

 SWAMP BLACKBIRD. CORN THIEF. 



PLATE XCVI. PIG. II. 



Slurnus prcedatorius, LUBBOCK. WILSON. 



Icterus pkcenicurus, BUONAPARTE. 



ABOUT the middle of April the birds pair, and nidification 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 to each other. 



The eggs, about five in number, are of a pale bluish white colour, 

 encircled at the larger end with spots and streaks of dark reddish brown, 

 with a few others scattered here and there, and some faint blots of 

 purple grey and lines and dashes of black. 



J. E. De Capel Wise, Esq. has forwarded me a specimen, presented 

 to him by Audubon. 



