. Food of the bobolink, blackbirds, and grackles . Other vegetablefood ^ Total vegeta-ble trace. 1 Ontario Observer, June 3,1899. THE CROW BLACKBIRD. 53 THE CROW (Quiscalus quiscula.) Throughout the Eastern States and Mississippi Valley the grackle,or crow blackbird, is one of the most familiar and conspicuous appears in spring and early summ
. Food of the bobolink, blackbirds, and grackles . Other vegetablefood ^ Total vegeta-ble trace. 1 Ontario Observer, June 3,1899. THE CROW BLACKBIRD. 53 THE CROW (Quiscalus quiscula.) Throughout the Eastern States and Mississippi Valley the grackle,or crow blackbird, is one of the most familiar and conspicuous appears in spring and early summer about farmhouses and villages,where it finds its favorite nesting places. Five different kinds occurwithin our borders, but the present paper is concerned only with thecommon purple grackle {Quiscalus quiscula) and its two subspecies, thebronzed grackle (Quiscalus q. ameus) and the Florida grackle (Quiscalusq. agloBus). The purple grackle is abundant in the region east of theAlleo-henies as far north as New York, and is found sparingly in New. £k. *•*«?„— Pig. 6.—Crow Blackbird. England. The Florida grackle is distributed over the region extend-ing from the coast of South Carolina southward into the peninsula ofFlorida and westward to Louisiana. The bronzed grackle occupiesthe Mississippi Valley and Great Plains as far west as the Rocky Moun-tains, ranges northward to Great Slave Lake and southern Newfound-land, and east to the coast of southern New England. In Canada and the Northern United States the crow blackbird isonly a summer resident, but in the Southern States it is presentthroughout the year, and in winter its numbers are increased by mil-lions of migrants from the North, which find here a congenial winter 1 Kevised and republished from the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture for1894, pp. 233-248, with the addition of new material. I- 54 FOOD OF BOBOLINK, BLACKBIEDS, AND GRACKLES. home. It does not occur south of the Gulf States, but stragglershave
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