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northern Lower California, Arizona, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Valley of Toluca, 

 Mexico, and east to southern Wisconsin, central Iowa, northern Illinois, and 

 Indiana. Winters from southwestern California, southern Arizona, and south- 

 western Louisiana south to Cape San Lucas, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Puebla. 

 Accidental in Greenland and in various eastern localities from Ontario and 

 Quebec to South Carolina, Florida, and Cuba. 



Genus AGELAIUS Vieillot. 



Agelaius Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 33. Type, by subs, desig., Troupiale 

 commandeur, Buffon = Oriolus phoenicetis Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus). Eastern Red-wing. [498.] 



Oriolm phoeniceus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 161. Based 

 mainly on The Red-wing'd Starling, Sturnus niger, alis superne rubenti- 

 bus Catesby, Carolina, I, 13. (in America septentrionaU = South 

 Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Quebec south to the north- 

 ern parts of the Gulf States. Winters mainly south of the Ohio and Delaware 

 valleys, locally north to Massachusetts. 



Agelaius phoeniceus meamsi Howell and van Rossem. Florida Red-wing. 



[498c.] 



Agelaius phoeniceus mearnsi Howell and van Rossem, Auk, XLV, No. 2, 

 April 16, 1928, 159. (Alligator Bluff, Kissimmee River, Florida.) 



Range. — Greater part of the Florida peninsula, south to the lower Kis- 

 simmee Valley and the Caloosahatchee River, north to Putnam County and 

 Anastasia Island, and west on the Gulf coast to Apalachicola. 



Agelaius phoeniceus fioridanus Maynard. Maynard's Red-wing. [4986.] 



Agelaius phoeniceus fioridanus Maynard, Birds East. N. Amer., Pt. xl, 

 1895, 698. (Key West, Florida.) 



Range. — Florida Keys and the southern portion of the Florida Peninsula, 

 north to Lake Worth and Everglade, Collier County. 



Agelaius phoeniceus littoralis Howell and van Rossem. Gulf Coast Red- 

 wmg. [498/1.] 



Agelaius phoeniceus littoralis Howell and van Rossem, Auk, XLV, No. 2, 

 April 16, 1928, 157. (Santa Rosa Island, opp. Mary Esther, Florida.) 



Range. — Gulf coast from Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida, west at least to 

 Galveston, Texas. 



