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NAME- 



Cowbird ** 

 (Molothrus ater) 



A.O.U. NO. - 495 



DATE- May 13, 1935 



^ 1 SIZE - 0.86 x 0.63 



INCUBATION - Fresh 



SITUATION - This bird, a known parasite, 

 had deposited its much larger whitish egg 

 rather heavily and evenly dotted and spotted 

 with different shades of brown and oval in 

 shape, in the nest of a Maryland Yellow- 

 Throat (Warbler). The latter was located in 

 a small clump of weeds which held the nest 

 about five inches above the ground. The area 

 surrounding the nest was beside a 3-4' wide 

 stream and immediately beneath a 40 ' high 

 roadway (asphalt) bridge (V.E.S. Road) 



(See Maryland Yellow-Throat, 

 A.O.U. NO. 681) 



Near Lynchburg, Va. 



(Brown- headed Gowbird) 



A.O.U. Checklist 1983 



