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Crow Blackbirds are also indigenous. The true Gracula barita 

 of Linnaeus is not yet satisfactorily ascertained; the Boat-tailed 

 Grakle of Latham's General Synopsis, is unquestionably the 

 Purple Grakle of Wilson. The best figures of the Purple Jack- 

 daw which we have seen, are those given in Bonaparte's Ornith- 

 ology, vol. 1, pi. 4. They were drawn by Mr. Alexander Ri- 

 der of Philadelphia, (not by Mr. Audubon, as is stated,) from 

 specimens brought from East Florida, by Mr. Titian Peale and 

 myself. G. Ord. 





