394 LIFE-HISTORIES OF BIRDS 



seemed draped as with mourning, while their notes 

 and screamings seemed like the far off sounds of 

 a huge cataract, but possessed of a more musical 

 cadence. « 



Theeggs of the Grakle in Eastern Pennsylvania 

 have a light greenish-white ground-color. We 

 have never met the deep rusty-brown variety 

 which Dr. Brewer speaks of, in the oft cited work , 

 on " North American Birds." They are variously 

 and irfegularly marked with black and dark-brown 

 dashes and streaks which are singularly grotesque 

 in their patterns. The eggs measure 1.24 of an 

 inch in length and .90 in breadth. 



