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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: THE ENGLISH 8PAKKO1V AND ITS ALLIES 293 woods, and feed on berries and fruits. The northernmostmember of the family is the scarlet tanager of the easternUnited States (Fig. 277). The Icteridae include numerous species with differenthabits. These are also confined to America, and areespecially abundant in the tropics. They feed, for the

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 277. — Scarlet tanager (Piranya erythomelas). most part, on seeds. The commonest representatives arethe crow blackbird,1 of large size and iridescent plumage ;the Baltimore oriole, which weaves a hanging nest; theorchard oriole, with less orange than the preceding; thelarge meadow-lark, brownish above and yellow below;the red-winged blackbird ; the cow-bird, which builds nonest but lays its eggs in the nests of various small birds ; 1 Fig. 278. 294 ZOOLOGY and the bobolink, as it is called in the North, Avhose songis the merriest of all birds. In the South, whither thebobolink migrates in the winter, it is a great pest in

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