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Title: Ornithology and oy of New England: containing full descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces ..
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Eggs
Publisher: Boston, Nichols and Noyes
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eks the tene-ment of some other bird, usually a smaller species thanherself; and, watching an opportunity when the other birdhas left it, siie drops an egg in it, and leaves it to the tendermercies of the owner of the nest. The birds most oftenchosen for this purpose are the Yireos, Warblers, and Spar-rows : sometimes the Small Thrushes are thus imposed upon,and rarely the Wrens. Some birds build over the stranger egg a new nest. Ihave in my collection a nest of the Yellow Warbler thusdoubled, and another of the Goldfinch. Sometimes thenest is abandoned, particularly if the owner has no eggs ofher own ; but usually the intruding egg is hatched, and theyoung bird attended with all the care given to the legitimateyoung. The eggs of this species are of a grayish-white,with fine spots of brown over the entire surface. Theirdimensions vary from .96 by .70 to .80 by .62 inch: somespecimens are marked with very minute reddish dots, whichare scattered over the entire surface; others have bold
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Red-winokd Blackbiui), Ayelnias j>/iieuiccus. Nk-illot. THE SWAMP BLACKBIRD. 341 dashes and confluent blotches of brown, thickest at thegreater end.^ By the last week in October, the young and old birdsassemble in large flocks, and leave for the South. AGELAIUS, ViEiLLOT. Agelaius, Vieillot, Analyse, 1816. (Type Oriolus Phmniceus, L.)First quill shorter than second; claws short; the outer lateral scarcely reachingthe base of the middle; culmen depressed at base, parting the frontal feathers;length equal to that of the head, shorter than tarsus; both mandibles of equal thick-ness and acute at tip, the edges much curved, the culmen, gonys, and commissurenearly straight or slightly sinuated; the length of bill about twice its height; tailmoderately rounded, or very slightly graduated; wings poiuted, reaching to end oflower tail coverts; colors black, with red shoulders in North-American species. The nostrils are small, oblong, overhung by a membranous scale; the bill ishigher than bro

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