. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . Bobolink, male and female. 2(3J: BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. plains, often following and running about with the cattle, in companywith Cowbirds; but their natural home is on or about the marshy,weedy grounds, and during the breeding season [they are] seldom tobe met with far away. . Their notes are harsh, and their attempt at song a laborious,whistling, squeaky, chuckling sound (Goss). 498. Agelaius phoeniceuis {Linn.). Red-winged $ .—Lesser wing-coverts—shoulders—bright scarlet; middle wing-coverts varying from ochraceous-bufF to butt
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . Bobolink, male and female. 2(3J: BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. plains, often following and running about with the cattle, in companywith Cowbirds; but their natural home is on or about the marshy,weedy grounds, and during the breeding season [they are] seldom tobe met with far away. . Their notes are harsh, and their attempt at song a laborious,whistling, squeaky, chuckling sound (Goss). 498. Agelaius phoeniceuis {Linn.). Red-winged $ .—Lesser wing-coverts—shoulders—bright scarlet; middle wing-coverts varying from ochraceous-bufF to butty^ white; rest of the plumageblack—in fall and winter specimens more or less tipped with rusty. Im. 5 .—Upper parts margined with rusty and buffy ; under parts tipped with whitish ;lesser wing-coverts dull orange-red mixed with black. Ad. 9 .—Head andback blackish, streaked with rusty and buffy ; rump and upper tail-covertsfuscous, more or less edged with ashy; wings fuscous, edged with bufty, thelesser coverts sometimes tinge
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