2O2 ORIOLES. 



when it is green, it then bleaches. Song, softer and rather 



more musical than d, 1. Migrates north in May, south in 



Sep. 



f. Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Xanthocephalus. 



Fig. 264. Rather large birds with 



thick, but pointed bills, quite 

 long tails and wings. 



1 . Y E L L O W-HE ADED 

 BLACKBIRD, X. XANTHO- 

 CEPHALUS. 10.50; dull black; 

 head, mostly yellow; small 

 white patch on wing, fig. 265. 

 Female duller, no white on 

 wing. Young male, like fe- 

 CC, "E, e, 1. 1-4. male but has white on wing. 



Western U. S. east to 111. ; casual in Mass., Pa.. Md., W. Ya., 

 District of Columbia, S. C. and Fig. 265. 



Fla. Song, a wheezy squeak. 

 Largely resident. 

 g. Rusty Blackbirds. 



Scolecophagu s. 

 Rather slender, medium 

 sized birds, wholly black with 

 greenish iridescence, becoming 

 rusty or grayish in autumn; 

 wings, long ;tail, long and some- 

 what rounded; bill, somewhat 

 curved; irides, yellowish-white. 



1. RUSTY BLACKBIRD, CC, ]g, f, 1. 1-5. 



S. CAROLINUS. 9.50; bill, slender, iridescence of head not 

 different from body, fig. 266 ; tips of feathers rusty in autumn. 

 Female, grayish. Eastern N. A. from northern N. E. north- 

 ward ; winters on the Gulf Coast; goes south in Sep., north 

 in March. Common. Nests in bushes. 



