302 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition and Upper Austral zones from eastern 

 Minnesota, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and New Brunswick south to 

 northern Texas, Missouri, and North Carohna, and west to western Nebraska, 

 Kansas, and northwestern Texas. Winters regularly from the Potomac and 

 Ohio valleys south to the Gulf States, and north locally to the Great Lakes 

 and southern Maine, 



Stumella magna argutula Bangs. Southern Meadowlark. [501c.] 



Sturnella magna arguhda Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, 20, Feb. 

 28, 1899. (Dunedin, Hillsboro Co., Florida.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone from southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, 

 and South Carolina south to Florida and the coast of Louisiana and south- 

 eastern Texas. 



Stumella magna hoopesi Stone. Rio Grande Meadowlark. [501a. ] 



Sturnella magna hoopesi Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XLIX] 1897, 

 sig. 10 [April 21], 149. (Brownsville, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone from north-central Arizona, southern New 

 Mexico, and southern Texas south into Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and 

 Tamaulipas. 



Stumella neglecta Audubon. Western Meadowlark. [501.1.] 



Sturnella neglecta Audubon, Birds Amer. (octavo ed.), VII, 1844, 3.39 (pi. 

 489). (Missouri River above Fort Croghan = Old Fort Union, North 

 Dakota.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Alberta, and 

 southern Manitoba south to northwestern Lower California, northern Mexico, 

 and central Texas. Winters from southern British Columbia and Iowa south 

 to southern Lower California, Jalisco, and Guanajuato, east casually to Wiscon- 

 sin, southern Michigan, and northern Illinois. Accidental in southern 

 Mackenzie. 



Genus XANTHOCEPHALUS Bonaparte. 



Xanthocephalus Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, I, sig. 54, June 15, 1850 [Feb. 

 3, 1851], 431. Type, by monotypy, Psarocolius perspicillatus Wagler 

 = Icterus xanthocephalus Bonaparte. 



Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonaparte). Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



[497.] 



Icterus xanthocephalus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 223 

 [Feb., 1826]. New name for /. icterocephalus Bonaparte, ibid. I, 27. 

 (Pawnee villages on the river Platte = Nebraska.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, 

 central Manitoba, east side of Hudson Bay, and northern Minnesota south to 



