Identifier: ournortherneastex00samu (find matches)
Title: Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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hey occasionally visit oldcornfields and stubl^le-fields, where they catch grasshoppersand other insects, and eat the seed of weeds and such grainsas are left by the farmer after harvesting. They remain in southern New England until early inNovember. QUISCALUS, ViEiLLOT. Quiscahis, Vikillot, Analjse (1816). (Gray.) (Type Grncnla qnhcala, L.)Bill as long as the head, the culmen slightly curved, the gonvs almost straight;the edges of the bill inflected and rounded; the commissure quite strongly sinuated;outlines of tarsal scutellivi well defined on the sides; wings shorter than the tail,sometimes much more so; tail long, the feathers conspicuously and decidedly gradu-ated. Colors black. QUISCALUS VERSICOLOR.— Vldlht. The Crow Blackbird; Purple Grakle. Gracula qinscaln, Linnreus. Syst. Nat., I. (1706) 105. Wils. Am. Orn., Ill(1811)44. Quiscahs versicolor, Vieillot. Analyse? (1816). )h., Nouv. Diet., XXVIII.1S19) 488 Nutt. Man., L (1832) 104. Aud. Orn. Biog., L (1831) 35; V. (18.38) 481
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Crow Bi.aokijii;d, Qaisnalus versicolor. YieiUot THE CROW BLACKBIRD. 353 DeSCRIFIIOX. Bill above, about as long as the head, more than twice as long is high; the com-missure moderately siniiated and considerably decurved at tip; tail a little sliort<;rthan the wing, much graduated, the lateral feathers one and ten one-hundrcdtlisinches shorter; third quill longest, first between fourth and fifth; head and neck allwell defined stcel-bue; the rest of the body with varied reflections of bronze,golden, green, copper, and purple, the latter most conspicuous on the tail, the tailcoverts, and wings; the edges of primaries and of tail greenish. Female similar,but smaller and duller, with perhaps more green on the head. Iris, yellow. Length, thirteen inches; wings, six; tail, five and eighty one-hundredths; billabove, one and twenty-five one-lunidredtlis inches. This very common and well-known bird is distributedtb.roughout New England in the summer season; arrivingabout the first week in A

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