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Grackle   Listen
noun
Grackle  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.
(b)
An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.





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... range from three to five and are greenish white, splashed, spotted and scrawled with various shades of brown and gray, and with streaks of black. Size 1.10 x .80. The nesting habits and eggs of the sub-species of this Grackle do not differ in any particular. Like those of this variety the eggs show an endless number of ...
— The Bird Book • Chester A. Reed


Words linked to "Grackle" :   New World blackbird, blackbird, myna bird, genus Quiscalus, purple grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, Gracula religiosa, mynah, Quiscalus, myna, mina, Indian grackle, hill myna, crow blackbird, mynah bird, minah


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