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Kles, or crow blackbirds, are found in great abundance; but in Colorado
these birds are replaced by Brewer's blackbirds, which closely resemble
their eastern kinsfolk, although not quite so large. The iridescence of
the plumage is somewhat different in the two species, but in both the
golden eye-balls show white at a distance. When I first saw a couple of
Brewer's blackbirds stalking featly about on a lawn at Manitou, digging
worms and grubs out of the sod, I simply put them down in my note-book
as bronzed or purple grackles--an error that had to be corrected
afterwards, on more careful examination. The mistake shows how close is
the resemblance between the two species. The