Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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i66 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL ♦Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula). A somewhat more common summer resident than the preceding species. It arrives early in May and remains until September. (See group, third floor). *Rusty Blackbird (Euphagtis caroliiins). A common migrant, passing northward in March, returning in September and sometimes remaining during the winter.
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Fig. 19. Red-winged Bl.\ckbird. *Purple Grackle: Crow Blackbird (Quiscalus quiscula). A common sum- mer resident of local distribution, nesting in colonies. It is one of our earliest migrants, arriving from the south with the Red-winged Blackbird about March I. During the breeding season it is not seen far from the vicinity of its nest, but about July i, when the young are on the wing, the birds gather in small flocks and wander over the country, pausing wherever they find an abundance ■oi food. These flocks gradually coalesce and, in October and November, form •enormous gatherings numbering thousands of birds. ♦Bronzed Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula ceneus). A spring and fall migrant, :Sometimes not uncommon. Family FRINGILLID.-E. Finches, Sparrows, etc. Evening Grosbeak (Hcsperiphona z'cspcrtiiia). During the winter and •early spring of 1,890 there was a phenomenal incursion of Evening Grosbeaks into the northern United States. The most southern record of their occurrence in the Atlantic States was at Summit, N. J., where, on March 6, Mr. W. O. Raymond observed a flock of eight birds (Orn. and Ool., XV, 1890, p. 46), No specimens were collected, but Mr. Raymond watched the birds for some time at a distance of about eight feet, and he has since examined skins of the species in this Museum, thus confirming his identification.

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