ORDER PASSERIFORMES. 301 



Range. — Throughout Europe and the British Isles except Italy, east to 

 Siberia. Introduced into North America in 1850 at Brooklyn, N. Y., and 

 during the next twenty-five years in various other cities including Quebec, 

 Canada, and Halifax, Nova Scotia; now thoroughly naturalized as far as settle- 

 ments extend. [Allied races occur in northern Africa, Asia Minor, and south- 

 ern Asia.] 



• Passer montanusmontanus (Linnaeus). European Tree Sparrow. [688.3.] 



Fringilla moniana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 183. (in Europa 



= North Italy.) 



Range. — British Isles, Europe, and northern Siberia. Introduced into the 



United States in 1870, at St. Louis, Mo., where it has become established. 



[Allied races occur on the Riukiu Islands, Hainan eastern Siberia, Formosa, the 



Malay Peninsula, and Greater Sunda Islands.] 



Family ICTERIDAE. Meadowlarks, Blackbirds, 



AND TrOUPIALS. 



Genus DOLICHONYX Swainson. 



Dolichonyx Swainson, Philos. Mag., n.s., I, No. 6, June, 1827, 435. Type, 

 by monotypy, Fringilla oryzivora Linnaeus. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus). Bobolink. [494.] 



Fringilla oryzivora Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. Based 

 mainly on The Rice-Bird, Horiulanus carolinaisis Catesby, Carolina, I, 

 14. (in Cuba, in Carolinam = South Carolina.) 

 Range. — Breeds mainly in the Transition Zone from southeastern British 

 Columbia, central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, southern 

 Ontario, southern Quebec, and Cape Breton Island south to northeastern Cali- 

 fornia, northern Nevada, Utah, Colorado, northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, 

 central Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Winters in South 

 America to southern Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, northern Argentina, and Paraguay; 

 migrates through the West Indies and along the east coast of Central America; 

 casually in New Mexico. Accidental in Greenland, Labrador, Bermuda, and 

 the Galapagos. 



Genus STURNELLA Vieillot. 



Sturnella Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 34. Type, by monotypy, Stourne, ou 

 Merle a fer-a-cheval Buffon = Alauda mag^ia Linnaeus. 



Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus). Eastern Meadowlark. [501.] 



Alauda magna Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. Based on The 

 large Lark, Alauda magna Catesby, Carolina, I, 33. (in America, 

 Africa = South CaroUna.) 



