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foot was while Secondaries of one 

 wing slightly splashed across with sev- 

 eral white streaks. 



(c) The late Dr. G. W. Massamore 

 told me that a friend saw a white crow 

 in Kent Co, a number of years ago. 



(d) Seen Feby. 28, 1893, by Mr. Geo. 

 H. Gray in a field in company with 

 other crows which did not seem to be 

 very peacefully inclined towards it. 

 Tail appeared to be entirely white, 

 back and folded wings grayish color, 

 and remaining parts normal. 



(e) Mr. Robt J. Fagan, this city, has 

 a live crow that was captured in Jan., 

 1896, near Still Pond. Kent Co. 1 went 

 to his place to look at it and found that 

 he kept a lagHF beer saloon. The crow 

 had been advertised in one of our daily 

 papers and proved to be quite a draw- 

 ing card. The entire plumage was a 

 soiled looking white color; the eyes, 

 feet, and bill being of a bluish tinge. 



Mr. James Robinson, who captured 

 it, was driving along the country road 

 and saw it fe^-diug with other crows 

 which flew away when he came near 

 them. This one also attempted to fly, 

 but had been injured and was easily 

 captured. 



Red-winged Blackbird. (498) 



(a) A male shot about nine years ago 

 from a large flock at Legoe'sPoint,Har- 

 ford Co., by Mr Wm. H. Bosley. The 

 mounted specimen, which is in his office 

 is mottled with white, black, and brown, 

 the white color predominating to a large 

 extent. Primaries and tail are pure 

 white with the exception of one or two 

 feathers in each, these are black. The 

 red on the shoulders is replaced by a 

 light yellowish pink. Bill, feet, and 

 eyes, black. 



(b) I am told that two white black- 

 birds were seen in a flock of red-winged 

 blackbirds early in 1897, near Relay, 

 Baltimore, Co. 



(c) A male was shot Nov. 1, 1896, in 

 Gunpowder River marsh, by Mr. Edw. . 

 Reynolds, who fired into a flock and 



secured eighteen birds, this oae being 

 amongst those secured Breast, belly, 

 and tail are a dark drab gray color, red 

 patches, on winsrs paler than normal, 

 eyes black, bill and feet flesh color, 

 primaries and secondaries ecru drab 

 tinged with white, back drab-gray with 

 yellowish streaks running across it. 

 No white or black feathers show in any 

 place. 



Baltimore Oriole. (507) 



(a) One in the museum of The Mary- 

 land Academy of Sciences, from Fred- 

 erick Co., is a dirty white color, with 

 the side of head, breast, and belly, 

 tinged with yellow; bill and feet yel- 

 low. Eyes (mounted specimen) are 

 black. 



Rusty Blackbird. (509) 



(a) March 31, 1893, I shot near Van 

 Bibber, Harford Co., a specimen entire- 

 ly normal excepting that on the occiput 

 it has about half a dozen white feathers. 

 Purple Grackle. (511) 



(a) Mr. F. C. Kirkwood tells me that 

 during the summer of 1896, one with a 

 pure white tail remained with others 

 on the farm of Mr. Thomas Pierce, in 

 Dulaney's Valley, Baltimore Co. 

 Tree Sparrow. (559) 



(a) Seen by Mr. F. C. Kirkwood March 

 1, 1896, in Long Green Valley, Balti- 

 more Co. Description given by him is 

 as follows; "White all over, quill of 

 wing and tail particularly so. Marked 

 as follows: Crown, ochraceous rufus 

 (Ridgeway colors) slightly more re- 

 stricted than usual, and indistinctly di- 

 vided in the center. A restricted spot 

 at hind part of auriculars. A small 

 spot on breast. The middle coverts, in- 

 terscapulars, and a stripe across cervix, 

 ochraceous. Tarsus, toe, and bill, flesh 

 color. Eye, as near as I could see, nat- 

 ural color; it looked black in marked 

 contrast to rest of body." 



(b) A female shot by Mr. George H. 

 Gray, April 14, 1894, at Crimea, Balt- 

 imore Co. In coloring the crown, back, 

 bill and tarsus are much paler than 



