BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES 



(509) Euphagus carolinus 



(Mullcr) 



RUSTY CRACKLE; RUSTY 

 BLACKBIRD. Iris yellow. Ad. o"" 

 ill Slimmer — As shown by the upper, 

 nearer birds; glossy black, iridescent 

 with green and purple, the former 

 predominating. In winter, with 

 rusty edges to head, breast and back 

 feathers. Young even more rusty, 

 as shown by the bird in the rear. L., 

 9.25; W., 4.60; T„ 3.50; B., .75. 

 Nest — Bulky, of twigs, bark, and 

 weeds in bushes. 



Range — Breeds from Me., Ont., 

 and Alberta northward. 

 (510) Euphagus cyanocephalus 



iWaglcr) 



BREWER'S BLACKBIRD. Head 

 glossed with purple; body greenish. 

 Western North America; east to the 

 Mississippi. 



fibres, String, etc. ; it is contracted at the upper end, where it 

 is firmly attached to the fork of a limb and bulges at the 

 lower end so as to provide a larger chamber for the eggs and 

 subsequent family. Located, as they so often are, at the 

 ends of long slender branches which are sv.'ayed to and fro 

 by every breeze and rocked violently by storms, a nest of 

 less depth would be an unsafe receptacle for either eggs or 

 little birds. It is very strange that any bird should choose 

 such a shaky home, with such high walls that the sitting 

 birds can see nothing except a small patch of sky above. 



Baltimore Orioles have a very attractive, clear, full 

 whistling song and a rather harsh chattering alarm note. 

 They spend the winter months in Central America and are 

 annually welcomed back to our Northern States the second 

 week in May. 



RUSTY BLACKBIRDS are abundant in the southern 

 half of the United States in winter and in the northern half 

 during migrations. They leave very early, before trees have 

 started to bud, for their summer home, which is principally 



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