300 
FEMALE COMMON CROW BLACKBIRD. 
more than one female (easily distinguishable, even in the higher 
regions of the air, by its much smaller size) is observed for a 
hundred males, in the last flocks. 
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. Fig. 1. 
Wilson s American Ornithology, iii. p. 44, pi. 21, fig. 4, for the male, and history. 
— Quiscalus versicolor, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 488. Nobis, 
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 harita, 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, JBriss. 
Av. ii. p. 41, sp. 3. — Monedula purpurea, the purple jackdaw, Catesby, Carolina', 
i. p. 12, pi. 12. — Gracula purpurea, the lesser purple jackdaw, or crow blackbird, 
Bartram, Trav. p. 291. — Pie de la Jamaique, Bvffon, Ois. iii. p. 97 Cassique 
de la Louisiane, Buff. Ois. iii. p. 242. PI. JSnl. 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.) — Philaddphia Museum, No. 1578, male; No, 1579, 
female ; No. 1602, whitish variety. 
Q UISCAL US VERSICOLOR.— YiEihLOT. 
The female common crow blackbird is figured in the an- 
nexed plate, that naturalists may have an opportunity of com- 
paring it with the corresponding sex of the great crow black- 
