Female common crow blackbird. 57 
at 0«»h/ tb '®bird, '"•ere obtained on the -22d of January 
scattered " , lr *d> w ' len but a few males were seen 
towards tli ° V<!r ? e cof; ' ou plantations. Advancing 
in the ear’ ** S ° ut 7 they became more numerous ; and 
bv female/ ^ >art February, the males, unaccompanied 
S't Juan -L W -Sr e ?? mnl °n Rear the rnoutli of the river 
appeared •, , on . A few days after, the females 
of frggjj’ associated by themselves on the borders 
^ _ , ,1 I oil UIL l 1 1 U1JI llol O 
allowed them .* i l >ondss they were very gentle, and 
Xv it bout h„,., SP - ves !'° bo approached within a few feet, 
sex®* were niIu o alarmed. Flocks composed of both- 
About tL T'/ ab0ut the . ,,lidd!e of March, 
the warm <• r t<u ' °t November, they leave even 
farther soun?® 10n , hloridu, to seek winter quarters 
t0 their den a ,/ W . 0ba . ,ly in the W °st Mies. Pr< ;vious 
and detuclunp. l Ue ’ * le y a * ssera ^ e in very large Hocks, 
Ward, ttyinn- ' are sepn cv ;e r y morning moving south- 
Wigrate later tl '* ^ r . eat height. The males appear to 
female tl1 ? females, as not more than one 
of the air 1 ' distinguishable, even in the higher regions 
hundred null 1 * C ! sma ^ ei * size) is observed for a 
The m” / ’ 111 the hat flocks, 
the West blackbird is also very numerous in 
Rot frequent tlmV M of CO ’ and Loui siana; hut it does 
bke the commrv 1 thern, or even the Middle States, 
the Corvus j\rJ ' C10 ' v blackbird. Our opinion, that 
species anc i t i °t authors is the male of this 
horated hv the ,,V,i orv ! ts .. za »oe the female, is corro- 
hoing- seen in* e™ai\ate flocks/** 6 ^ C1W b!aekbird 
10 . rz„ SICM0St VIEIL1 _ 
FEMALE C0SIJI ° N CR °W-BLACKBIItD, RONAI-AUTE. 
BONAPAltTE, riAT E y, FIG _ 
ohiedTl 6 / nam ° ° f tbiS - bird i^iscala) has been 
the genus'' « **» having been applied to 
" e have substituted the name given hv 
,-Mdy — The English 
Vieiilm ls: , ,"’ e have substituted the m 
s ' V lu 'h is admirably appropriate. 
