. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XIV. BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 149 Length, 7-8J; wing, 3|-3|; tail, 2J-3|; tarsus, }; culmen, | nearly. United States from about the Rocky Mountains eastward ; breeding from the Gulf of Mexico to Ontario, and wintering south of tlie United States to Central America. The Hooded Oriole (505. Icterus cucidlatus) of south- ern Texas to Central America is an orange-colored bird with black wings, black tail, and a peculiar black hood covering the face and throat; t
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XIV. BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 149 Length, 7-8J; wing, 3|-3|; tail, 2J-3|; tarsus, }; culmen, | nearly. United States from about the Rocky Mountains eastward ; breeding from the Gulf of Mexico to Ontario, and wintering south of tlie United States to Central America. The Hooded Oriole (505. Icterus cucidlatus) of south- ern Texas to Central America is an orange-colored bird with black wings, black tail, and a peculiar black hood covering the face and throat; the wings have white blotches on coverts and quills. The female lacks the black mask, but both sexes can be separated from all of our other orioles except the next, by the fact that the tail is longer than the wings. Wing, 3',-3; ; tail, 3|-4J. It can be separated from Audubon's by the size. Audubon's Oriole (503. Icterus audubbnii) is found from southern Texas to Central Mexico. It is a very large, black-headed, orange-bodied oriole with black wings, tail, breast, etc. Length, 8;-10|; wing, 3|-4i; tail, 4-4|; culmen, 1. 8. Rusty Blackbird (509. ScolecdpJimpis caroTlnus). —A com- mon, medium-sized, glossy, bluish-black bird (in spring) with all the tail feathers of nearly equal length. In the autumn and' winter the black is much hidden by the rusty-brown tips to the feathers. The female in spring is glossy slate-colored, but in the autumn \nsty BlaokMrd and winter she, like the male, is rusty. This is a quiet, ground-living, swamp- loving species. (Kusty Grackle.) Length, 8^-9|; wing, 4J-5 ; tail, ?,\-i\ ; tarsus, 1} ; culmen, J. North America from the Plains eastward ; breeding from northern New York northward, and wintering from New Jersey southward. 9. Brewer's Blackbird (510. Scoleodphagns cyanocephalus). — A western blackbird similar to the last, but larger and with a conspicuous violet-purple iridescence to the head. The bill is stouter and there are less rusty tips to
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