This western representative of the preceding is of about the same size (10 inches long), but differs in having a purplish head and greenish black body. They nest abundantly throughout their range either in bushes or trees at low elevations or upon the ground; the nests are made of sticks, rootlets and grasses, lined with finer grass and moss, and the eggs, which are very variable, are duli whitish, clouded and blotched with brownish and streaked with blackish. Size 1.00 x .75.

Brewster's Blackbird.

Dull white.