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Quiscalus quiscula aglaeus Baird. Florida Grackle. [511a.] 



Quiscalus aglseus Baird, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, XLI, Jan., 1866, 84. 

 (Cape Florida, Key Biscayne, Florida.) 



Range. — South Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida, and west in 

 the southern part of the Gulf States to southeastern Texas. 



Quiscalus quiscula aeneus Ridgway. Bronzed Grackle. [5116.] 



Quiscalus seneu^ Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XXI] 1869, No. 

 2, April- July [July 30], 134. (Mississippi region of U. S. = Mount 

 Carmel, Illinois.) 



Range. — Breeds from Great Slave Lake, northern Manitoba, Nova Scotia, 

 and Newfoundland south to Montana and Colorado (east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains) and southeast to northwestern Georgia, Pennsylvania (west of the 

 Alleghanies), New York, Massachusetts, and northern Connecticut. Winters 

 mainly from the Ohio Valley south to southern Texas; casual in migration and 

 in winter east of the Alleghanies. 



Genus MOLOTHRUS Swainson. 



Molothrus Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 

 II, 1831 [1832], 277. Type, by orig. desig., Fringilla pecoris Gmelin = 

 Oriolus ater Boddaert. 



Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert). Eastern Cowbird. [495.] 



Oriolus ater Boddaert, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 37. Based on the Troupiale, 

 de la Caroline Daubenton, PI. Enl., 606, fig. 1. ([South] Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Nova Scotia, and 

 New Bnmswick south to central Virginia, southeastern Kentucky, central 

 Tennessee, south-central Arkansas, Louisiana, and central Texas, and west to 

 Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Nebraska, southwestern Kansas, 

 and New Mexico. Winters from the Ohio and Potomac valleys, casualty to 

 New York and Michigan south to Florida and the Gulf coast. 



Molothrus ater artemisiae Grinnell. Nevada Cowbird. [4956.] 



Molothrus ater artemisiae Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., V, No. 5, 

 Dec. 31, 1909, 276. (Quinn River Crossing, Humboldt County, 

 Nevada.) 



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

 southern Manitoba, southwestern Mackenzie, and central British Columbia 

 south to east-central California, southern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, and 

 from central Minnesota, southeastern South Dakota, and western Nebraska 

 west to western Washington, central Oregon, and northeastern California. 

 Winters south to Texas, Vera Cruz, and Michoacan. 



