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depth of bill at base, lO.T-13 (11.0); tarsu.s, 33.3-34.8 (33.8); middle 

 toe, 21.8-23.6 (22.9).' 



Peninsula of Florida, along- the Gulf coast to Louisiana (Mandeville, 

 New Orleans, St. James Parish, Jefferson Parish, West Baton Rouge 

 Parish, etc.), and along the more southern Atlantic coast to South 

 Carolina (to Virginia!^).' 



(?) lOriolus] ludoridanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 387 (based on Cassique, de 

 la Louisiane, Daubenton, PI. Enl. pi. 046; = albinotic specimen, probably 

 of this form). 



(?) Ch[alcophanes'] purpuratus (not Quiscalus purpuratus Swainson?) Cabanis, 

 Mus. Hein., i, Sept. 1851, 196 (Georgia). 



Quiscalus boritus (not Gracula barita Linnseus) Bated, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 556 (Key Biscayne and Cape Florida, s. Florida), 925 (Indian 

 Key, s. Florida); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 32; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 422. 



Quiscalus versicolor (not of Vieillot) Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 146, part. — Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1862; 129 (Florida).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 394, 

 part. 



Quiscalus aglxus Baird, Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, ser. 2, xli, 1866, 84 (s. Florida; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 404 

 (monogr.). — Ridgway, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, 135 (crit.). — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 37, fig. 2. 



[^Quisculus purpureus.'] Var. aglsnis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 161. 



Quiscalus purpureus . . . var. agheus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 225a. 



[Quiscalus purpureus] var. agelaius Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 203. 



[Quiscalus jjurpureus.] Var. aglieus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 221. 



[Quiscalus purpureus'] c. agheus Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 203 (synonymy). 



Quiscalus purpureus aglxus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 183; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1882, no. 278«.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 337. 



Quiscalus quiscula aglxus Ste.tneger, Auk, ii, Jan. 1885, 43, footnote. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 511a. — Fisher, Auk, v, 1888, 

 113 (New Orleans, Louisiana, summer). — Brewster, Auk, v, 1888, 208 

 (Charleston, South Carolina, breeding). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 



^ Five specimens. 



Louisiana specimens are larger than those from Florida, with decidedly longer 

 bills; but they must either be referred to the same form or recognized as a fourth 

 subspecies. In coloration they agree very closely with Florida examples. Average 

 measurements of the two series are as follows: 



^ Although Virginia is given as the northern limit of the range of this form in the 

 second edition of the A. O. U. Check List, I do not know upon what authority or 

 evidence. I have not seen specimens from farther north than Charleston, South 

 Carolina. 



