Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
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84 a. Quiscalus puipureus seneus Ridgmay. Bronzed Grackle. — 
This form of the species breeds here and is by all odds the commonest in 
the Adirondack region. 
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Quiscalus quiscula seneus. The Bronzed Grackle is rare on Long 
Island. Its spring and autumnal migrations are ordinarily completed 
without crossing the island. Extraordinary conditions, high north- 
westerly winds, for example, may drive it from its regular course. It 
is not improbable that grackles, sometimes seen here in November, are 
this form. On Nov. 17, 1900, a flock of six or eight grackles was seen at 
Jamaica South, feeding in company with many robins, in recently culti- 
vated fields. They were shy, and but one specimen was secured. It 
proved to be a typical quiscula CEneus. I know of but one other specimen 
of this variety from Long Island. Mr. W. W. Worthington of Shelter 
Island killed a grackle on June 16, 1886, which was of the same variety. 
These birds were identified by Mr. Chapman. Almost all varieties of 
intermediates occur on Long Island, all the breeding birds being inter- 
mediates. See paper by Mr. Chapman entitled ‘ Preliminary Study of 
the Grackles,’ Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, 1892, pp. 1-20. 
AHk, XIX, April., 1902 , p . / ^ 
