308 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Euphagus cyanocephalus (Wagler). Brewer's Blackbird. [510.] 



Psarocolius cyanocephalus Wagler, Isis von Oken, XXII, 1829, Heft vii 

 (July), col. 758. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from central British Columbia, Athabaska Landing, 

 southern Alberta, and central Manitoba to northern Lower California, New 

 Mexico, and western Texas, and from the Pacific to northwestern Minnesota, 

 western Nebraska, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and Kansas. Winters from 

 southern British Columbia and Wisconsin and Kansas south to Guatemala. 

 Casual in Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, southern Florida, and South Carolina. 



Genus CASSIDIX Lesson. 



Cassidix Lesson, Traite d'Orn., Livr. 6, Feb. 1, 1831, 433. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Cassidix mexicanus Lesson = Corvus Mexicanus Gmelin 

 (Gray, 1840). 



Cssidix mexicanus mijor (Vieillot). Boat-tailed Grackle. [513.] 



Quiscahis major Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., XXVIII, 

 1819, 487. (le Mexique et la Louisiane = Louisiana.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone of the South Atlantic and Gulf States from 

 southern Delaware and Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys and west to the 

 eastern coast of Texas. 



Cassidix mexicanus mexic'nus (Gj elin). Great-tailed Grackle. [513a.] 



Corvus mexicanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 375. Based on the 

 Hoitzanatl Hernandez, Nov. Plant. Anim. Min. Mex. Hist., 1651. 

 (Mexico.) 



Range. — Southern Texas south through eastern Mexico, Yucatan, and 

 Central America to northern Colombia, and west over the southern part of 

 the Mexican tableland to Michoacan and Jalisco. 



[Allied races of C. mexicanus occur in western Mexico.] 



Genus QUISCALUS Vieillot. 



Quiscalus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 36. Type, by subs, desig., Gracula 

 quiscula Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Quiscalus quiscula quiscula (Linnaeus). Purple Grackle. [511.] 



Gracula Quiscula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 109. Based 

 mainly on The Purple Jack-Daw, Monedula purpurea Catesby, Carolina, 

 I, 12. (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Upper Austral Zone from the north shore of Long 

 Island Sound and the lower Hudson Valley west to the AUeghanies and south to 

 northern Georgia, northern Alabama, and eastern Tennessee. Winters mainly 

 south of the Delaware Valley. 



