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Adult male. -Length (skins), 200-223 (211.3); wing, 91-99 (95.1); 

 tail, 92-104 (99); exposed culmen, 14.5-17 (16); tarsus, 27-28 (27); 

 middle toe, 16-18 (17). « 



Adult female.—Length (skins), 197-217 (211.1); wing, 88-98 (92.9); 

 tail, 89-101 (96.3); exposed culmen, 15.5-16.5 (16.1); tarsus, 2.5-27 

 (26); middle toe, 15-17 (15.8).* 



Coast district of South Carolina and Georgia to southern Florida, 

 and westward over the coastal plain of the Gulf States to Louisiana.^ 



ILanius'] ludovicianus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 134 (based on Pie-griesche 

 de la Louidane, Lanius ludovicianus, Brisson, Orn., ii, 1760, 162, pi. 15, fig. 

 2).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788,298, part (not of p. 302 <^).— Latham, Index 

 Orn., i, 1790, 69, part. 



Lanius ludovicianus Bonapakte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 26, 72; Geog. and 

 Comp. List, 1838, 26; Consp. Av., i, 1850, 363.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 

 1831, 300, pL 37; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 135, pi. 237.— (?) Jardine, 

 Contr. Orn., 1848, 83 (Bermudas, 1 spec., spring 1847). — Swainson, Fauna 

 Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 118, in text (crit.). — Brehm, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 145 

 (monogr. ). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 469 (Cuba?; see Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1861, 404).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 213 (monogr.).— 

 (?) Bland, Ann. Eep. Smithsonian Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermudas).— 

 Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 359. — Dresser and Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1870, 595, part (monogr.). — Eidgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 149, part.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 187.— Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 245, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 622, part.— Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 14 (Tarpon Springs, Punt a 

 Rassa, etc., s. w. Florida; not observed at Key West). — Mortimer, Auk, vii, 

 1890, 342 (Orange Co., Florida; habits).— Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. 

 xlvii, 1897, p. vii (AndrosL, Bahamas). 



[Lanius ludovidanus'] a. ludovicianus Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 194, part (in 

 synonymy). 



Lanius ludovicianus ludovicianus Palmer (W.), Auk, xv, July, 1898, 248 (crit.). 



« Seventeen specimens. 

 b Ten specimens, from Florida. 



Specimens from South Carolina and Georgia compare in average measurements 

 with Florida examples as follows : 



In coloration the two series agree minutely. 



c I have not been able to examine satisfactory specimens from Louisiana, and have 

 doubts as to whether the birds from that State (the true i. ludovicianus) are identical 

 with those from Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. If different the latter (upon 

 which, exclusively, the above descriptions are based) should be called Lanius ludo- 

 vicianus ardosiaceus (Vieillot). 



(i = Tt/rannus tyrannus. 



