THE COMMON CROW BLACKBIRD.

Tue Crow Blackbird, of which vast
numbers visit our cornfields, is about ten
inches in length. The prevailing black
of the plumage is relieved by glossy re-
flections of steel-blue and violet. The
male is larger than the female. They
arrive in the states north of Virginia, in
April, and continue to increase in num-
ber until they wholly overrun the warmer
maritime regions. Wilson relates that
he met with a prodigious army of Black- |
birds on the banks of the Roanoke, in
Virginia, which, as he approached, rose
from the fields with a noise like thunder,

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