FEMALE COMMON CROW BLACKBIRD. 197 
The great crow blackbird is also very numerous in the West 
Indies, Mexico, and Louisiana ; but it does not frequent the 
northern, or even the middle States, like the common crow 
blackbird. Our opinion, that the Corvus Mexicanus of authors 
is the male of this species, and their Corvus zanoe the female, 
is corroborated by the male and female great crow blackbird 
being seen in separate flocks. 
FEMALE COMMON CROW BLACKBIRD. (Quiscalus 
versicolor.) 
PLATE V.—Fie. 1. 
Wilson’s American Ornithology, iii. p. 44, pl. 21, fig. 4, for the male, and history. 
—Quiscalus versicolor, Viewll. Nouv. Dict. d Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 488.—WNobis, 
Obs. Nom. Wils. Orn. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. iii..p. 365.—Gracula 
quiscala, Linn. Syst. i. p. 165, sp. 7.—Gmel. Syst. i. p. 397, sp. 7.—Lath. 
Ind. p. 191, sp. 7.—Gracula barita, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 396, sp. 4.—Lath. Ind. 
p. 191, sp. 6.—Ord, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. i. p. 254 (not of Linn.) 
—Oriolus Ludovicianus, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 387, sp. 31 (pied variety). —Oriolus 
leucocephalus, Lath. Ind. p. 175, sp. 4 (pied variety).—Pica Jamaicensis, 
Briss. Av. ii. p. 41, sp. 3. —Monedula purpurea, the Purple Jackdaw, Catesby, 
Carolina, i. p. 12, pl. 12.—Gracula purpurea, the Lesser Purple Jackdaw, or 
Crow Blackbird, Bartram, Trav. p. 291.—Pie de la Jamaique, Buffon, Ois. 
lili. p. 97.—Cassique de la Louisiane, Buff. Ois. iii. p. 242.—Pl. enl. 646 
(pied variety).—Purple Grakle, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 153.—Lath. Syn. i. 
part 2, p. 462, sp. 6.—Boat-tailed Grakle, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 154.—Lath. 
Syn. i. part 2, p. 460, sp. 5.—White-headed Oriole, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 
147.—Lath. Syn. i. part 2, p. 422, sp. 4 (pied variety).—Philadelphia 
Museum, No. 1578, male; No. 1579, female; No. 1602, whitish variety. 
QUISCALUS VERSICOLOR.— VIEILLoT. 
Tue female common crow blackbird is figured in the annexed 
plate, that naturalists may have an opportunity of comparing 
it with the corresponding sex of the great crow blackbird, 
and thus receive a distinct idea of the difference between the 
two species, so well manifested in their females. 
The specific name of this bird (quiscala) has been changed, 
im consequence of its having been applied to the genus: we 
have substituted the name given by Vieillot, which is admi- 
rably appropriate. The English name employed by Wilson 
