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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Group 4. Wing, 4.75 to 5.50 inches long. 



First primary, not short; base of bill, dividing the feathers of the fore= 

 head ; nostrils, exposed ; outer tail feathers, shorser than middle feathers. 



Genenil plumage, inetallie blue, 

 green, purple, and bronze. 



Crow Blackbird. 

 Purple Grackle. 



Quiacalns quiscAila^ and races. 

 See No. 3S3. 



Upper plumage, dark brown, or l)l;i(kisb; crown, brown; underparts, brown= 

 Ish gray, sliadiug to brownish white or buHy white on the throat. 



Boat=tailed Grackle. 



(^ui^cdl'ts majiir ( fcnial i'') . 

 See No. 386. 



General ]>lumage, black ; a 

 patch of scarlet red on 

 the shoulder. 



Red=winged Blackbird. 



AypJaius phu'niceits {mlaU male). 

 See No. 3^3. 



^mm 



