33o 



RUSTY GRAKLE. 



stay till November, when the severe frosts drive them south- 

 ward.* 



The summer dress of the snow bunting is a tawny brown, 

 interspersed with white, covering the head, neck, and lower 

 parts ; the back is black, each feather being skirted with 

 brown ; wings and tail, also black, marked in the following 

 manner : — The three secondaries next the body are bordered 

 with bay, the next with white, and all the rest of the secon- 

 daries, as well as their coverts and shoulder of the wing, pure 

 white ; the first six primaries are black from their coverts 

 downwards to their extremities; tail, forked, the three exterior 

 feathers on each side white, marked on the outer edge near 

 the tip with black, the rest nearly all black ; tail-coverts, red- 

 dish brown, fading into white ; bill, pale brown ; legs and feet, 

 black; hind claw, long, like that of the lark, though more 

 curved. In winter, they become white on the head, neck, and 

 whole under side, as well as great part of the wings and rump ; 

 the back continues black, skirted with brown. Some are even 

 found pure white. Indeed, so much does their plumage vary 

 according to age and season, that no two are found at any 

 time alike. 



BUSTY GRAKLE. (Gracula ferruginea.) 



PLATE XXI.— Fig. 3. 



Black Oriole, Arct. Zool. p. 259, No. 144.— Rusty Oriole, Ibid. p. 260, No. 146.— 

 New York Thrush, Ibid. p. 339, No. 205. — Hudsonian Thrush, Ibid. No. 234, 

 female.— Labrador Thrush, Ibid. p. 340, No. 203. — Peale's Museum, No. 5514. 



SCOLEPHA G US FERR UGINEUS.—SvtAmsox. 



Quiscalus ferrugineus, Bonap. Synop. p. 55. — Scolephagus ferrugineus, North. 

 Zool. ii. p. 286. 



Here is a single species described by one of the most judicious 

 naturalists of Great Britain no less than five different times ! 

 — the greater part of these descriptions is copied by succeeding 



* London Philosophical Transactions, lxii. 403. 



