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