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North Carolina, and northern Georgia. Winters throughout nearly all of 

 the United States and southward to Cuba, Mexico, Lower California, and 

 Panama. Accidental in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, and the British 

 Isles. 



Family PTILOGONATIDAE. Silky Flycatchers. 



Genus PHAINOPEPLA Baird. 



Phainopepla Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and 

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xix, xxxiv, [credited to Sclater on] 923. 

 Type, by orig. desig., PtUogonys nitens Swainson. 



Phainopepla nitens lepida Van Tyne. Phainopepla. [620.] 



Phainopepla nitens lepida Van Tyne, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., V, 149, May 22, 1925. (Riverside, California.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lower Austral Zone from central California, southern 

 Utah, and central western Texas south to Cape San Lucas and northwestern 

 Mexico. Winters from southern California southward. Casual in central 

 Nevada and northern California. [A closely related race occurs in Mexico.] 



Family LANIIDAE. Shrikes. 



Subfamily LANIINAE. Typical Shrikes. 



Genus LANIUS Linnaeus. 



Lanius Linnaeus, Syst, Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 93. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Lanius excuhitor Linnaeus (Swainson, 1824;. 



Lanius borealis borealis Vieillot. Northern Shrike. [621.] 



Lanius borealis Vieillot, Oiseaux Amer. Sept., I, 1807 [1808], 80 (pi. 50). 

 (Centre des Etats-Unis = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Hudsonian Zone and locally in the Canadian from 

 northern Ungava to southern Ontario and southern Quebec, west at least to the 

 east side of Hudson Bay. Winters southward to Kentucky, Virginia, and 

 North Carolina (casually). 



Lanius borealis invictus Grinnell. Northwestern Shrike. [621a.] 



Lanius borealis invictus Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. I, Nov., 

 1900, 54. (Kowak River, Alaska.) 



