. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . Plate XXXVII. PURPLE GRACKLELength, male, 12-50 inches ; female, 11 00 inches,and breast bright metalHc blue, purple, or greenbelly paler ; eye pale yellow. Female, much duller than male. 169 Male, head, neck, throat,back with iridescent bars : lYO BOBOLINK. bands or colonies. Tliey generally select a pine grove,often choosing one in a cemetery, park, or other localitywhere they will not be disturbed. This may result in ascarcity of food when the young are born, but, ratherthan abandon a locality which experience has proved tobe safe, the
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . Plate XXXVII. PURPLE GRACKLELength, male, 12-50 inches ; female, 11 00 inches,and breast bright metalHc blue, purple, or greenbelly paler ; eye pale yellow. Female, much duller than male. 169 Male, head, neck, throat,back with iridescent bars : lYO BOBOLINK. bands or colonies. Tliey generally select a pine grove,often choosing one in a cemetery, park, or other localitywhere they will not be disturbed. This may result in ascarcity of food when the young are born, but, ratherthan abandon a locality which experience has proved tobe safe, they make long journeys in search of food fortheir nestlings. By watching the old birds one may theneasily learn where they live. Their flight is direct andsomewhat labored, and when going only a short distancethey • keel their tail-feathers, folding them upwardfrom the middle, an action which renders Grackles con-spicuous and easily identifiable when on the wing. On theground they strut about with a jjeculiar walk, which, inconnection with their yello
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