. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 248 BIRDS OF AMERICA RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD Agelaius phoeniceus phcjeniceus {Linncrits) A. O. U. Number 498 See Color Plate 73 Other Names.â Swamp Blackbird; Retl-winged Starlinp;; Red-shouldered Starling; Red-shouldered Blackbird : Marsh Blackbird : Red-winged Oriole ; Red- wing. General Description.â Length, 8^ inches. Males are black with red shoulders; females are dusky above and whitish below with streaks of dusky. Bill, shorter than head; wings, rather long and pointed; tail, }i or more as long as wing, and rounded. Color.â Adult M.\le: Uniform
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 248 BIRDS OF AMERICA RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD Agelaius phoeniceus phcjeniceus {Linncrits) A. O. U. Number 498 See Color Plate 73 Other Names.â Swamp Blackbird; Retl-winged Starlinp;; Red-shouldered Starling; Red-shouldered Blackbird : Marsh Blackbird : Red-winged Oriole ; Red- wing. General Description.â Length, 8^ inches. Males are black with red shoulders; females are dusky above and whitish below with streaks of dusky. Bill, shorter than head; wings, rather long and pointed; tail, }i or more as long as wing, and rounded. Color.â Adult M.\le: Uniform deep black with a very faint greenish-blue gloss in certain lights ; lesser â wing-coverts, bright vermilion (varying to scarlet or even, more rarely, to orange-chrome); middle coverts, zvholly huff (paler at tips, sometimes almost white in midsummer birds); iris, brown. Adult Female: Above, dusky, varied with paler streaks and edgings; crown with center stripe of pale bufFy-grayish, the dusky broad lateral stripes streaked with pale bufify or grayish; shoulders, edged on inner webs with pale huffy-grayish, on outer webs with rusty; secondaries, innermost primaries, tail-feathers, and primary coverts narrowly edged with pale grayish or buffy-grayish, the upper tail-coverts margined with the same; greater coverts and outermost primaries edged with dull whitish ; lesser coverts broadly margined with brownish- gray or red, or both (often extensively red) ; middle coverts, black, broadly margined terminally with white or pale buffy; a broad white stripe over eye, finely streaked with dusky, usually becoming buff or salmon color over and in front of eye; a broad stripe of dusky behind the eye; cheeks and under parts, dull white (the chin, throat, and cheeks often buff or salmon-pink'), the under parts of the body broadly streaked with dusky (sometimes almost black), these stripes broadest on flanks; under tail-coverts, dusky margined with white or pale buffy; chin and throat som
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