. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 212 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. few till VniK'ouvev Island in tlio yards wliere cattle were fed, and a small nunil)LT IVetiucnteil tlie niulii-ciiiui) on tlie Sunias ])rairie. East of the Cascades he met none cxcejit at ('olville, wliere a small tlock had wintered in a settler's cowyard. Tlicv appeared to have a great liking lor the pres- ence uf those animals, arising iVoni their finding more food and insects there tlian elsewhere, walking between their legs, and even perching iii)on their hacks
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 212 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. few till VniK'ouvev Island in tlio yards wliere cattle were fed, and a small nunil)LT IVetiucnteil tlie niulii-ciiiui) on tlie Sunias ])rairie. East of the Cascades he met none cxcejit at ('olville, wliere a small tlock had wintered in a settler's cowyard. Tlicv appeared to have a great liking lor the pres- ence uf those animals, arising iVoni their finding more food and insects there tlian elsewhere, walking between their legs, and even perching iii)on their hacks. Captain IJlakiston found this sjiecies breeding on the forks of the Sas- katchewan, June o, 1858, where he obtained its eggs. Genus QUISCALUS, Vieillot. Quiscalns, , , 181(3 (GuAY). (Tyjie, Gracula qiiUcala, L.) Sp. Bill as long as the hoail, the culmen slightly curved, the gonys almost straight; the edges of the bill iiilleettMl and rounded; the commissure quite strongly. Quisrnlus /mrpHreus. sinuated. Outlines of tarsal soul' :e well delined on the .siiles; tail long, boat-shaped, or oapalile of folding so that the two sides ean almost be lirought together upward, the featluM-s conspicuously and decidedly graduated, their inner webs longer than the outer. Color black. The excessive giwlnation of the long tail, with the perfectly black color, at once distinguishes this genus from any other in the United Stiites. Two types may be distinguished : one Qin', in which the females are much like the males, although a little smaller and perhaps with rather less lustre; the other, Mnjuqitucnlna, much larger, with tlie tail more graduated, the females considerably smaller, and of a brown or rusty color. The Qiriscali are all from Xorth America or tht; West Indies (including Trinidiid) ; none having been positively determined as South American. The Jf<(/(tqi(isciili are and Gulf species entirely, while a tiiird group, the IIolo(2uiscali, is
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