FEMALE COMMON ^ROW-BLACKBIRD.
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Plate V. HFig. 1.
See WilSos’s American Ornithology, HI, p. 44, 4. for the Male; fm<l l#oQr.
Quiscalus versicolor, VranjT JSfouo. Diet d’Eist. Nat. XXVIII, p. 488.—-Ijj'QTiis, Obs.
Nffgn, Wik. Om. Joum. Acad. Ifat. gel philad. EH, j j §65^;;^ .
Gracuta quiscala, LiNf. Syst. I , > £65;JSp. 7. Ghee.’ Syst. I, p. 397, S ^ ^ L ath.
. Ind. p. 191, Spjj7.
Gracula barita, Gmel. Syst. I, |}?396,_Sp. 4. L ath: Ind. p. Arum.
1' Acad. jNfdSc. Philad. I, p. 254. (not of L inn.)
Oriolus liAovudanus, Gmel,. Syst. I)?p. 3$,7, Sp. 31, (pied variety.) "
Oriolus leucocephalus, Lath. Ind. p. I75i&p. 4, (pied variety.)
Pica jamaicenm, Briss. Av. II, p/41, Sp;,3.
Monedula purpurea, the Purple Jackdaw, Catesby, Carolina, I, pj;i:2, PL- 12. '
Grdcula purpurea, tbe Lesser Purple Jackdaw, or Grow-Blackbird, Bartr. Trqv. p f ||f l.
Pie de la Jamaique, Buff. Ois. HI, p.-97.
Ctassique M hmm isit^Bvev. Ois. HI, p. 242'. Pi. Enl. 646, (p iejvariety.)
Purple Grakle, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp_. 153-.‘-Lath. Syn. I, Part II, pC4£2, S p # 6 ^ a
Boat-tailed Grakle, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 154. La^ J Syn. I, Part Hvp,v4$). S^e L '
White-headed Oriole, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 147. Lath. &!mM Part n,;pf422, Sp. 4,
(pied varietv.lISjl
Philadelphia Museum, No. 1578, MMe;j|Ml579, Female; No. 1602,.whitish variety.
T he female Common Crow-Blackbird is figured in the annexed
plate, that naturalists may have an opportunity of comparing it with
the corresponding sex of the Great Crow-Blackbird, and thus receive
a distinct i d e a ^ f l | difference between,the two species, so well
manifested in their females.