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Temperate eastern North America (Canadian district of Boreal 

 Province southward), except peninsula of Florida; north on Atlantic 

 coast to Newfoundland and Magdalen Islands (southern Labrador?), 

 on west side of Hudson Bay to Nelson River, and in the interior 

 nearly to the Arctic coast (lower Anderson River); west to beginning 

 of the arid region. 



Corvus corone (not of Linnseus) Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 79, pi. 25, fig. 3. — 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 56. — Swainson and Richardson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 291. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 

 1832, 209. 

 Corvus americanus Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 317 (e. United States; type in 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ?); v. 1839, 477, pi. 156; Synopsis, 1839, 150; Birds Am., 

 oct. ed., iv, 1842, 87, pi. 225.— Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 29.— 

 Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 221.— Jardine, Contr. 

 Orn., 1848, 79 (Bermudas, resident). — Hurdis, Jardine' s Contr. Orn., 1850, 

 5 (Bermudas, introduced!). — Woodhouse, Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuiii and Col. 

 R., 1853, 78, part (Indian Territory).— Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 566, part (Nelson R., Hudson Bay territory; District Columbia; Illi- 

 nois; Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Union, etc., Nebraska?); ed. 1860 (Birds N. 

 Am.), atlas, pi. 23; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 426, part.— Schlegel, 

 Bijdr. Dierk.,ii, 1859, 10 (monogr. ); Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 24.— 

 CouEs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 226 (off coast Labrador, 1 spec, July 

 14); Check List, 1873, no. 228, part.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 146 

 (Nova Scotia). — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 7 (plains Saskatchewan). — (?) Allen, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 61 (North Dakota).— Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 233, part, pi. 37, fig. 5.— McChesney, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 80 (Fort Sisseton and Fort 

 Berthold, Dakota).— Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1883, 379 (Gulf 

 St. Lawrence; habits).— (?) Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 321 (w. Manitoba, sum- 

 mer). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 488, part. — 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi Val., 1888, 158 (dates, etc.).— Ridgway, Orn. 

 Illinois, i, 1889, 331.— Bishop, Auk, vi, 1889, 147 (Magdalen Islands, breed- 

 ing).— Palmer (W.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 262 (Magdalen and 

 Mingan Islands; St. Johns, Newfoundland). — Macfarlane, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiv, 1891, 439 (lower Anderson R., breeding). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 568 (Manitoba; habits, etc. ).— Nutting, Bull. Labrat. 

 N. H. Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 274 (lower Saskatchewan; habits). — Dwight, 

 Auk, X, 1893, 10 (Prince Edwards L, breeding). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 405, pL 4, figs, 8-12, pi. 5, figs. 21, 22 (eggs).— Nehr- 

 ling. Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 309.— Coubeaux, Ottawa Nat., 1900, 29 

 (s. Saskatchewan, summer res.). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 40 (Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka, n. w. Ontario). — Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 281, part. 



Clonms] ammcam(.s Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 385. — Maximilian, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1858, 198 (critical, habits, etc.). — Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 

 1876, 112 (n. e. Illinois).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 362. 



ICorvus americanus'] Barrows and Schwakz, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric, no. 6, 

 1895, 1-98 (range, habits, food, etc.). 



[Corvus] americanus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 12, no. 6198. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 162, part. 



ICorvus americanus] a. americanus Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 206, part. 



^Corvus americanus] var. americanus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 233, part. 



