. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . y all over with dusky olive. They begin to layabout the beginning of April : soon after which the malesleave their mates not only with the care of incubation, butwith the rearing of the young, moving about in separateflocks, like the Cow Birds, without taking any interest inthe fate of their progeny. The general appearance of the male is black; but the head andneck have bluish-purple reflections; the rest presents shades of steel-blue, excepting the back, rump, and middling wing coverts whichare glossed with co
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . y all over with dusky olive. They begin to layabout the beginning of April : soon after which the malesleave their mates not only with the care of incubation, butwith the rearing of the young, moving about in separateflocks, like the Cow Birds, without taking any interest inthe fate of their progeny. The general appearance of the male is black; but the head andneck have bluish-purple reflections; the rest presents shades of steel-blue, excepting the back, rump, and middling wing coverts whichare glossed with copper green ; the vent, inferior tail coverts, andthighs are plain black. The tail, wedge-shaped, is nearly 8 inches inlength, and like that of the common species, is capable of assuminga boat-shaped appearance. Iris pale yellow. The bill and feet female is of a light dusky brown, with some feeble greenish re-flections, and beneath of a dull brownish white. The young, at first,resemble the female, but have the irids brown, and gradually acquiretheir appropriate COMMON CROW-BLACKBIRD. (Qi/iscalas versicolor, Vieill. Audubon, pi. 7. [stealing corn, veryspirited and natural] Bonap. Am. Orn. vol ii. p. 4-. pi. 5. fig. 1.[female.] Gracula quiscala, Lin. Wilson, iii. p. 41. pi. 21. fig. 4.[male].) Spec. Charact. — Glossy-black; tail wedge-formed, extending farbeyond the wings (nearly 3 inches); bony keel within the billlarge : length about 11£ inches; vertical breadth of the bill at basenearly half an inch. — Female similar to the male, but somewhatless brilliant: length 11 inches. This very common bird is an occasional or constantresident in every part of America, from Hudsons Bayand the northern interior to the great Antilles, withinthe tropic. In most parts of this wide region they alsobreed, at least from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, and proba-bly farther south. Into the stales north of Virginia theybegin to migrate from the beginning of March to May, 208 OMN
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