. Bird guide . YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. 497. XunthovhuluH xanlhoccplKiIus. lU inches. Male black, witli head and bright yellow;female more brownish and with head paler and mixedwith brown. These handsome birds are common locally on theprairies, frequenting sloughs and extensive marshes andborders of lakes. Ihey are very sociable birds and breedin large colonies, sometimes composed of thousands ofbirds. Notes.—A harsh chack, and what is intended for asong, consisting of numerous, queer sounding squeaks,they being produced during seemingly painful contor-tions of the singer. Nest.—Of rus
. Bird guide . YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. 497. XunthovhuluH xanlhoccplKiIus. lU inches. Male black, witli head and bright yellow;female more brownish and with head paler and mixedwith brown. These handsome birds are common locally on theprairies, frequenting sloughs and extensive marshes andborders of lakes. Ihey are very sociable birds and breedin large colonies, sometimes composed of thousands ofbirds. Notes.—A harsh chack, and what is intended for asong, consisting of numerous, queer sounding squeaks,they being produced during seemingly painful contor-tions of the singer. Nest.—Of rushes woven around upright canes overwater, in ponds and sloughs. The nest is placed at fromtour inches to two feet from the water and is quite deepinside. The four to six eggs are grayish, profuselyspecked with pale brown (). Range.—U. S., chiefly west of the Mississippi, northto I^ritisn Coluinbia and Hudson Bay; winters on south-western t)order of the U S. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 498. Agel
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