gracula

Updated: May 22, 2025

But that naturalist who should attempt, by ever so minute a description of a pied blackbird, to give his readers a correct idea of the Gracula Ferruginea of ornithologists, would not more utterly fail of accomplishing his object, than have the authors whose creations we have named, by delineating such individual instances by holding up, as it were, such outre specimens of an original class failed to convey any thing like an accurate impression of the habits, customs, and general character of the western pioneers.

Cecil B. Hartley - Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer