248 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B - C -, R - C -.] 

 HAD. Dakota, westward to Utah and Nevada, north to Manitoba. 



GENUS MOLOTHRITS SWAINSON. 



Molothrus SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 277. Type, Fringilla pecbris 

 GMEL. = Oriolus ater BODD. 



495. Molothrus ater (BODD.). 



Cowbird. 



Oriolus at.-r BODD. Tabl. PI. Enlum. 1783, 37. 

 Molothrus aler GRAY, Handl. B. II. 1870, 36. 



[B 400, C 211, R 258, C 313.] 



HAB. United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, north into 

 Southern British America, south, in winter, into Mexico. 



495 a. Molothrus ater obscurus (GMEL.). 



Dwarf Cowbird. 



Sturnus obscurus GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 804. 



M[olothrus\ aterva.\:. obscurus COUES, B. N. W. 1874, 180, in text. 



[B , C 211 a, R 258 a, C 314-] 



HAB. Southern United States, from Texas to Arizona and Lower 

 California, south into Mexico. 



496. Molothrus seneus (WAGL.). L^tlXwi) /wj^ 6AB- 



Bronzed Cowbird. 



Psarocolius atneus WAGL. I sis, 1829, 758. 

 Molothrus aneus CAB. Mus. Hein. I. 1851, 192. 



[B , C , R 259, C 315.] 



HAB. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas, and southward. 



GENUS XANTHOCEPHALUS BONAPARTE. 



Xanthoccphalns BONAP. Consp. Av. I. 1850, 431. Type, Icterus icte- 

 rocephalus BONAP. = I. xanthoccphalus BONAP. 



