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Range. — Breeds (mainly in Austral zones) from the interior valleys of 

 British Columbia south through central Washington and central Oregon to 

 lat. 32° in Lower California; west to the Pacific coast from Sonoma County 

 southward, also east to southwestern Montana and northern Utah. Winters 

 in California and Lower California, and in western Mexico south to Morelos. 



Lanius ludovicianus nelsoni Oberholser. Nelson's Shrike. [622/.] 



Lanius ludovicianus nelsoni Oberholser, Condor, XX, No. 6, Dec. 12, 

 1918, 209. (Todos Santos, southern Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape district of Lower California north to lat. 29°, and on Santa 

 Margarita Island; in the Arid Tropical and Lower Sonoran zones.^ 



Lanius ludovicianus anthonyi Mearns. Island Shrike. [622c.] 



Lanius ludovicianus anthonyi Mearns, Auk, XV, No. 3, July, 1898, 261. 

 (Santa Cruz Island, California.) 



Range. — Santa Barbara Islands, California.^ 



Family STURNIDAE. Starlings. 



Genus STURNUS Linnaeus. 



Sturnus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 167. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



•*• Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris Linnaeus. Starling. [493.] 



Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. (in Europa, 

 Africa = Sweden.) 



Range. — ^Western and central Europe. Winters south to Africa. Acci- 

 dental in Greenland. Introduced in 1890 in New York City and thence has 

 spread as far north as New Brunswick, southwestern Quebec, and southeastern 

 Ontario, west to Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, and south to Texas, 

 Mississippi, and Florida. [Many allied races in Em-ope and Asia.] 



Genus AETHIOPSAR Gates. 



^thiopsar "Sharpe," Gates, Fauna British India (Birds), I, Dec, 1889, 

 539. Type, by subs, desig.. Pastor fuscus Wagler (Sharpe, 1892). 



1 Includes L. I. grinnelli Oberholser (Wilson Bull., XXXI, 1919, 87). 



2 Includes L. I. mearnsi Ridgway (Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., XVI, 1903, 108). 



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