RED-WINGED BLACK-BIRD. 
{Icterus phoeniceus, Baud. Bonap. Audubon, pi. 67. [the male, a 
small specimen]. Sturnus prcedatorius, Wilson, 4. p. 30. pi. 30. fig. 
1. [male in summer dress], fig. 2. [female], Philad. Museum, No. 
1466, 1467.) 
Sp. Ciiabact. — Black ; lesser wing coverts vermilion red. — 
Young and autumnal male i, above, with the feathers, skirted with 
ferruginous. — Female, dusky brown, varied with ferruginous 
and whitish, sometimes also with the lesser wing-coverts spotted 
with black and the red of the male. 
The Red-Winged Oriole in summer inhabits the whole 
of North America from Nova Scotia to Mexico, and is 
found in the interior of the continent from the 53d degree 
of latitude, probably to the sources of the Missouri. They 
are migratory north of Maryland, but pass the winter in 
great numbers in all the southern states, frequenting 
chiefly the settlements and rice and corn-fields, towards 
the sea-coast, where they move about like blackening 
clouds, rising suddenly at times with a noise like thunder, 
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