. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Char. Male: head, neck, and breast yellow; large patch on wing white; other parts black. Female and young : general colpr blackish brown; wings without the white spot; throat and breast dull yellow. Length 9 to ii inches. Nest. — Of dried grass, firmly woven and fastened to twigs of a bush or stalks of rushes, in a marsh or swampy meadow. Eggs. — 2-6 ; grayish white, sometimes with a green tint, irregularly marked with brown;
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Char. Male: head, neck, and breast yellow; large patch on wing white; other parts black. Female and young : general colpr blackish brown; wings without the white spot; throat and breast dull yellow. Length 9 to ii inches. Nest. — Of dried grass, firmly woven and fastened to twigs of a bush or stalks of rushes, in a marsh or swampy meadow. Eggs. — 2-6 ; grayish white, sometimes with a green tint, irregularly marked with brown; X The Yellow-headed Troopial, though long known as an inhabitant of South America, was only recently added to the fauna of the United States by Major Long's expedition. It was seen in great numbers near the banks of the River Platte, around the villages of the Pawnees, about the middle of May; and the different sexes were sometimes observed associated in separate flocks, as the breeding season had not yet probably commenced. The range of this fine species is, apparently, from Cayenne, in tropical America, to the banks of the River Missouri, where Mr. Townsend and myself observed examples not far from the settled line of Missouri State. It has been seen by Dr. Richardson, in summer, as far as the 5 8th par- allel. Its visits in the United States are yet wholly confined to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924. Boston, Little, Brown
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