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Red-Winged Blackbird A.0.U.NQ.4 98 

 (Agelaius phoeniceus) 



DATE- 



May 12, 1933 









k 







NO.- 







INCUBATI 



ON- Fresh 









1.01 x 0.71 



1 .01 



x 0.70 



SIZES- 



1.00 x 0.72 



1.02 



x 0.71 



SITUATION - In a freshwater swamp of about 

 two acres, most of which was covered with 

 wild Rose bushes intermixed with cattails, I 

 found the nest of this species. It was 

 saddled between three upright reeds and held 

 to them by interwoven dried rushes and long 

 grasses. It was lined with finer grasses and 

 contained four fresh, oval, somewhat glossy, 

 pale, bluish green eggs, which were scrawled, 

 scratched, and blotched, especially at the 

 larger end with various shades of brown and 

 lavender with generous amounts of black. 



The female permitted me to 

 approach within a few feet before she flew. 



Near the cemetery, Big Stone Gap, Va. 



