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6'. Head and neck not brown. 



7. Tail normal ; body uniformly glossy bluish black ; 

 migrant. Plumage rusty in fall migration. 



p. 101. RUSTY BLACKBIRD. 



7'. Tail long and fan-shaped ; body not uniformly 

 bluish black; head, neck, and breast metallic pur- 

 ple or bluish ; rest of body metallic with iridescent 

 bars p. 93. CROW BLACKBIRD. 



FIG. 52. Meadowlark. 



FIG. 53. Bobolink. FIG. 54. Red-wing. 



REPRESENTATIVES OF BLACKBIRD AND ORIOLE 

 FAMILY. 



