A New World tropical blackbird...gregarious
and common in urban and agricultural
areas, and around tourist hotels.
Quiscalus lugubris
(L m-10.7" f- 9.1")
Quis in Latin means
who
and qualus means of what
kind; lugubris in Latin
means
mourning.
How mightily the pioneers of birding
must have struggled with the poor
quality of their optics.
(Clay Sutton)
© William
W.
H. Gunn
Macaulay
Library