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FEMALE COMMON CROW-BLACKBIRD. 
QUISCALUS VERSICOLOR . 
Plate V. Fig. 1. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology , III, p. 44, PL 21, fig. 4, for the Male, and history. 
Quiscalus versicolor , Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. XXVIII, p. 488.— Nobis, Ohs. 
Nom. Wils. Orn. Joarn. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. Ill, 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, Briss. Av. II, p. 41, Sp. 3. 
Monedula purpurea, the Purple Jackdaw , Catesby, Carolina , I, p. 12, PL 12. 
Gracula purpurea, the Lesser Purple Jackdaw, or Crow Blackbird, Bartr. Trav. p. 291. 
Pie de la Jamaique, Buff. Ois. Ill, p. 97. 
Cassique de la Louisiane, Buff. Ois. Ill, p. 242. PI. Enl. 646, (pied variety.) 
Purple Grakle, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 153. Lath. Syn. I, Part II, p. 462, Sp. 6. 
Boat-tailed Grakle, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 154. Lath. Syn. I, Part II, p. 460, Sp. 5. 
White-headed Oriole, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 147. Lath. Syn. I, Part II, p. 422, Sp. 4, 
(pied variety.) 
Philadelphia Museum, No. 1578, Male; No. 1579, Female; No. 1602, whitish variety. 
The female Common Crow-Blackbird is figured in the annexed 
plate, that naturalists may have an opportunity of comparing it 
with the corresponding sex of the Great Crow-Blackbird, and 
thus receive a distinct idea of the difference between the two spe¬ 
cies, so well manifested in their females. 
The specific name of this bird [quiscala) has been changed, in 
consequence of its having been applied to the genus: we have 
