. Western birds . from seventeen and one-half incheslong to nearly twenty-two, and are a bronzy iridescentblack, save for white belly and wing patches; the tailis very long and graduated; bill and naked skin of orbitalregion, black. The young lack the bronzy gloss on thehead. They are, indeed, showy creatures as they flythrough the air, the long graduated tail spread, and thewhite of wings showing in marked contrast to the blackplumage. They range from northwestern America to northernArizona and New Mexico, and from eastern slope of theCascades and Sierra Nevada to western North Dakotaand west
. Western birds . from seventeen and one-half incheslong to nearly twenty-two, and are a bronzy iridescentblack, save for white belly and wing patches; the tailis very long and graduated; bill and naked skin of orbitalregion, black. The young lack the bronzy gloss on thehead. They are, indeed, showy creatures as they flythrough the air, the long graduated tail spread, and thewhite of wings showing in marked contrast to the blackplumage. They range from northwestern America to northernArizona and New Mexico, and from eastern slope of theCascades and Sierra Nevada to western North Dakotaand western Texas; casual in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois,Michigan, Ontario, and the Hudson Bay region. Breed-ing range in California east of the Sierra Nevada, northto Shasta Valley, south to Mono Lake. The nest of these birds is a marvelous affair, being amud cup lined with grasses, rootlets, pine needles, andhair, surrounded by a globular mass of coarse sticks,sometimes as big as a bushel basket, placed usually three 100.
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