. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 264 BIRDS OF AMERICA violet-bluish on head and neck; under tail-coverts, margined with whitish ; bill, black ; iris, pale yellow or yellowish-white. Adult Male in Winter: Similar to the summer plumage, but the black obscured by rusty brown on crown, hindneck, back, and shoulders, and by cinnamon-bufify over eye and on cheeks, chin, throat, chest, and sides. Adult Female in Summer: Uniform dull slate color, dark and faintly glossed with bluish- green on upper parts; bill, black; iris, pale yellow. Adult Female in Winter : Similar to the summer plumag
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 264 BIRDS OF AMERICA violet-bluish on head and neck; under tail-coverts, margined with whitish ; bill, black ; iris, pale yellow or yellowish-white. Adult Male in Winter: Similar to the summer plumage, but the black obscured by rusty brown on crown, hindneck, back, and shoulders, and by cinnamon-bufify over eye and on cheeks, chin, throat, chest, and sides. Adult Female in Summer: Uniform dull slate color, dark and faintly glossed with bluish- green on upper parts; bill, black; iris, pale yellow. Adult Female in Winter : Similar to the summer plumage but crown, hindneck, back, and shoulders, overlaid by rusty brown, inner wing quills and greater wing-coverts margined with the same, stripe of buff over eye. and feathers of cheeks, chin, throat, chest, and sides tipped with brownish-buff. Young: Above, dark sooty brown, more slate-dusky on wings and tail feathers; inner wing quills and terminal portion of greater and middle wing-coverts margined with rusty; stripe over eye of light rusty ; under parts, brownish- gray tinged with light buffy-brown on cheeks, chin, throat, chest. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : Located in alders or wil- lows within a foot or two of the water; rather bulky, constructed of layers of leaves, grass, and mud, often lined with fine brii/ht green grass. Eggs: 4 or 5, light bluish-green thickly blotched and spotted with different shades of chestnut, sepia, and drab; pen lines and scrawls characteristic of other blackbirds, nearly always absent. Distribution.— Northern and eastern North America ; breeding from Nova Scotia. New Brunswick, northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, northern New York and northern Michigan north to Ungava and north- westerly to the Arctic coast and Alaskan shores of Bering Sea; south in winter to the Gulf coast (Florida to Texas) ; west more or less reguarly, to western border of the Great Plains, casually to Lower Califor- nia; accidental in Greenland. When the first sharp frost
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