Birdcraft - a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds (1897) (14751741625)
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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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1. COWBIRD.Length, 7.50-8 inches. 2. PURPLE GRACKLE. Length, 12-13.50 inches. SONG-BIRDS. BlackbirdB Rusty Blackbird : Scolecophagus carolinus. Thrush Blackbird. Length: 9-9.50 inches. Male: In breeding-plumage. Glossy black with metallic glints and a rusty wash. In autumn more decidedly rust-coloured. Bill and feet black.Female: Deep nisty brown above, grayish below.Song: Only a clucking call note.Season: Common migrant; April, October, and November; may winter.Breeds: From northern New England northward.Nest: Bulky, of dried grasses, lined with mud and slung among reeds or bushes over water like that of the Red-wing.Eggs: 4, colouring very variable, greenish blue to grayish white, mottled with brown.Bange: Eastern North America, west to Alaska and the Plains. You may identify these inconspicuous Blackbirds bytheir pale, straw-coloured eyes, and the rusty wash thatdims their feathers, also from the fact that in spring theyarrive in single pairs and not in flocks like the Grackles,whi
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