. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. Rusty Blackbird. Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin â Cory. 563 coast; breeds from the northern border of the United States north- ward. (Northern Michigan, New York, Maine, etc.) Adult male in summer: Entirely lustrous black, with greenish reflections; head nearly or quite the same color (never purplish blue); wing, less than 5 inches long (measured from carpus to tip); iris, pale yellow; bill and feet, black. Adult female in spring: General plumage, slate color; wings and tail, darker and more or less glossy. Adult m,ale in fall a
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. Rusty Blackbird. Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin â Cory. 563 coast; breeds from the northern border of the United States north- ward. (Northern Michigan, New York, Maine, etc.) Adult male in summer: Entirely lustrous black, with greenish reflections; head nearly or quite the same color (never purplish blue); wing, less than 5 inches long (measured from carpus to tip); iris, pale yellow; bill and feet, black. Adult female in spring: General plumage, slate color; wings and tail, darker and more or less glossy. Adult m,ale in fall and winter: Plumage, black, but feathers widely tipped above with ferrugineous or rusty; feathers of under parts, tipped with buff brown. Adult female in fall: Feathers of the upper parts, broadly tipped with ferrugineous or rusty, often almost entirely concealing the gray bases of the feathers on the head and upper back; a bufEy superciliary line; feathers of under parts, tipped with pale tawny brown. The females are smaller than the males. Male: Length, g; wing, ; tail, ; bill, .75. â Female: Length, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, .65. This species is an abundant migrant in spring and fall in Illinois and Wisconsin. Kumlien and HoUister state that formerly it oc- cured as a summer resident in Wisconsin, but only a single instance of its breeding within our limits is on record: "A set, nest and eggs taken at Storrs' Lake near Milton, June, 1861, is now in the Kumlien col- ; (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 89.) 232. Euphagus cyanocephalus (Wagl.). Brewer's Blackbird. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Wagl.), A. 0. U. Check List, 1895, p. 209. Distr.: Western United States, from the British Provinces to Central America; accidental as far east as Illinois and Wisconsin. Breeds from southern Texas northward to Alberta, Manitoba and the Saskatchewan and east to Minnesota and Nebraska. Adult male in summer: Bill, stouter than E. carolinus; general plumage, l
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