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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 sliort ; base of bill, dividing the feathers of the fore- 

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



General plumage, metallic blue, 

 green, purple, and bronze. 



Crow Blackbird. 

 Purple Grackle. 



Qni^i'aJns quiscuht^ and riirrs 

 See No. 3S3. 



Upper plumage, dark brown, or lilackiah; crnwn, browu; underparts, brown= 



ish gray, sliailiug to Ijrowuish wliite or biifTy white on tlie tliroat. 



Boat=tailed Crackle. 



(jidscaliAS major (femali'). 

 See No. 386. 



^//^"'i 111 I <' 



General plumage, blael; ; a 

 patch of scarlet red on 

 the shoulder. 



Red-winged Blackbird. 



A(jelaiux ■jiliiriiirni^ (adult male}. 

 See No. 3"."?. 



