BIRDS OB^ NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 245 



Colltiriu ladoriciaiiun, vur. exc'ibitoruides Bxiiu), Euewek, and Kiduwav, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, i, 1874, 421, part.— Purdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1887, 21 



(Cranston, Rhode Island, 1 spec, Sept. 2). — Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, ill, 1878, 54 (Lewis Co., New York). — L.\ngdon, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



iv, 1879, 120 (Madisonville, Ohio, Aug. 22). 

 CloUuriol hidoricinnus, var. excuhitoroides Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 



104 (Illinois, chiefly on prairies). 

 Lanius liidoricianus excubitoroides Merri.v.m, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 188], 228 



(Lewis Co., New York, breeding). 

 CoUurio ludoiicianus var. excubitoroides . . . b. ('.rc»/</7oyo/(/('.sCoi"E.s, Birds N. W., 



1874, 102, part. 

 C^ollurio^ ludoricianus . . . var. excubitoroides Ridgw.vy, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 



1874, 371 (Illinois). 



Lanius Indoiicianus excubilorides Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 561, part; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 188, part.— Ridgway, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 149a, part.— Cahoon, Forest and Stream, xix, no. 12, Oct., 1882 (Taunton, 

 Massachusetts, Sept. 12). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 622f(, part.— Cooke, Bird .Migr. ISIiss. Val., 1888, 23.3, part (Minne- 

 sota; Iowa; Wisconsin; Illinois; Indian Territory ?). — Averill, Auk, vi, 

 1889, 74 (Bridgeport, Connecticut, 5 specimens, August). — Miller, Auk, viii, 

 1891, 119 (Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Aug. 22). — McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 

 1894, 346 (Hamilton, Ontario, breeding). — Ulrey and Wallace, Proc. Ind. 

 Acad. Sci., 1895, 156 (Wabash, Indiana, summer resid.). 



{^Lanius ludoricianus'] b. excubitorides Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 194 (excl. 

 syn. part). 



Lanius ludovieianiis (not of Linntieus) Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 76 (Indian Territory; Texas).— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1853, 308 (Wisconsin).— MiNOT, Birds New Engl., 1877, 105 (Massachu- 

 setts). — De.\ne, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club., iv, 1879, 119 (Concord, New Hamp- 

 shire, Jan. 20) ; v, 1880, 50 (Abbott, Maine, breeding).— Purdie, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 186 (breeding at Bangor, Maine; Say brook, Connecticut, 

 Nov., Jan.).— Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 223 (Long Beach, New 

 Jersey, Apr. 5).— Bagg, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 237 (Oneida Co., 

 New York, July 19).— Lee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club.'v, 1880, 118 (St. Law- 

 rence Co., New York, July 23, Aug. 9). — Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 

 1880, 118 (crit.).— Knowlton, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1882, 64 (w. Ver- 

 mont, breeding). — Ridgway', Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 253 (District 

 of Columbia).— WiNTLE, Auk, i, 1884, 193 (Montreal, breeding). — Browne, 

 Auk, i, 1884, 291 (Framingham, Massachusetts, Jan. 29). — Frost, Auk, ii, 

 1885, 379 (Hanover, New Hampshire, breeding; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs).— Fo.x, Auk, iii, 1886,317 (Roane Co., Tennessee, Mar. 18, 20).— 

 Ditcher, Auk, vi, 1889, 138 (Suffolk Co., Long Island, Aug. 28).— Chap- 

 man, Auk, vi. 1889, .304 (Tappan, New Jersey, Aug. 24 ) . — Go.s.-*, Hist. Birds 

 Kansas, 1891, 517. — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 316, part, pi. 

 17, fig. 4. — Stone, .Vuk, xi, 1894, 139 (Cape May, New Jersey, sunnner). — 

 McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 1894, 345 (near Hamilton). — Bitlek, Birds Indi- 

 ana, 1897, 1006 (whole State; summer resid., wintering in southern pi>rt). — 

 Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 43 (Beaumaris, n. Ontario). — Moore, .\iik, xviii. 

 1901, 196 (York Co., New Brunswick, breeding). 



Llanius] ludoricianus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 467, part. 



Collurio ludoricianus AhhEyi, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II.,i, 1868, 495 (w. Iowa); Am. 

 Nat, 1869, 579 (New York and New England examples; crit.).— Pi uniE, 

 Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 115 (Massachusetts). — Maynaro, Am. Sportsman, v, 



1875, 313 (Newtonviilc. Massacinisetts).— RiiuiWAY, Bull. Nutt. Oru. Club, 



