. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . o s PLATE 1. , inches. 2. PURPLE GRACKLE. Length, inches. SONG-BIRDS. BlackbirdB Rusty Blackbird : Scolecophagus carolinus. Thrush Blackbird. Length: inches. Male: In breeding-plumage. Glossy black with metallic glints and a rusty wash. In autumn more decidedly rust-coloured. Bill and feet : Deep nisty brown above, grayish : Only a clucking call : Common migrant; April, October, and November; may : From northern New England
. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . o s PLATE 1. , inches. 2. PURPLE GRACKLE. Length, inches. SONG-BIRDS. BlackbirdB Rusty Blackbird : Scolecophagus carolinus. Thrush Blackbird. Length: inches. Male: In breeding-plumage. Glossy black with metallic glints and a rusty wash. In autumn more decidedly rust-coloured. Bill and feet : Deep nisty brown above, grayish : Only a clucking call : Common migrant; April, October, and November; may : From northern New England : Bulky, of dried grasses, lined with mud and slung among reeds or bushes over water like that of the : 4, colouring very variable, greenish blue to grayish white, mottled with : Eastern North America, west to Alaska and the Plains. You may identify these inconspicuous Blackbirds bytheir pale, straw-coloured eyes, and the rusty wash thatdims their feathers, also from the fact that in spring theyarrive in single pairs and not in flocks like the Grackles,whi
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