220 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



York,' western Peiuisylvunia, the Ohio VuUey (including western ^^^^st 

 Virginia and greater portion of Kentucky and Tennessee), central Ala- 

 bama (i), northern Mississippi and Louisiana, Texas (Bexar, Cook, 

 Navarro, and Harris (?) counties), northward to New Brunswick, Nova 

 Scotia, southern Newfoundland, southern Labrador, Great Slave Lake, 

 and Prince Albert, Northwest Territory; west to base of Rock}" Moun- 

 tains in eastern New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming (west to Fort 

 Bridger), Montana, etc. During migrations, an occasional straggler 

 to the Atlantic coast district from Maryland southward. 



Quiscalus versicolor (not of Vieillot) Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831,35, part, pi. 

 7; V, 1839, 481, part; Synopsis, 1839, 146, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 

 1842, 58, part, pi. 221.— Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 285.— Nut- 

 T.\LL, Man. Orn. V. S. and Can., i, 1832, 194, part.— Haymond, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 291 (Franklin Co., Indiana) .—Baird, Rep. Pacific R. 

 R. Surv., ix, 1858, 555, part (Iowa; Red R., Manitoba; localities in Nebraska, 

 Kansas, etc.), 927 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 421, part.— Willis, Smithsonian Rep. for 1858 (1859), 283 (Nova Scotia).— 

 Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 151 (Oxford Co., Maine, breeding). — 

 Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 7 (Forks of Saskatchewan); 1863, 83 (bet. Lake 

 W^innipeg and Hudson Bay). — Samuels, Birds New Engl., 1864, 10. — Coues, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 285 (Lynn, Massachusetts). — Sxow, Birds Kansas, 

 1873, 8.— Maynard, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1878, 375 (Maine; New 

 Hampshire; Massachusetts). — Sclater, Ibis, 1884, 154, part (monogr. ); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 394, part. 



{?) Chlalcophatie.^'] cfre/co/or Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept., 1851, 196. 



Quiscalus purpureus Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 

 1853, 79 (Indian Territory; Texas; New Mexico; "California"). — Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 403, part (ex frracula purpitren Bartram, = 

 nomen nudum). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 225, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 

 203, part.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 128 (e. Kansas), 138 

 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 61 (Fort Rice, 

 North Dakota; mouth of Tongue R., Heart R., and Yellowstone R., e. Mon- 

 tana). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 8. — Langdon, Birds Cincinnati, 

 1877, 10; rev. ed., 1879, 11.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 176 

 (Upton, Maine; descr. young).— McChesney, Bull. LT. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr.,v, 1879, 80 (Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, Apr. to Oct.) .— Rathbun, 

 Rev. List Birds Centr. N. Y., 1879, 22 (summer resid.). — Scott, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 145 (w. Missouri). — Covert, Annot. List Birds, etc., 

 Washtenaw Co., Michigan, 1881, 182.— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 231 (Fulton Chain, n. e. New York) ; vii, 1882, 237 (Point du Monts, 

 prov. Quebec, Canada) .—Hatch, Ninth An. Rep. Geol. and N. H. Surv. 

 Mimi., 1881, 396 (Minnesota).— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am. 1881, 148, part.— 

 Cha.mberlain, Bull. no. 1, Nat. Hist. Soc. N. B., 1882, 42 (New Brunswick, 

 summer resid.). — Hoffman, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxi, 1882, 400 (Fort 

 Berthold, North Dakota).— (?) Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 92 

 (Memphis, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi ) . — (?) Beckham, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 162 (Bayou Sara, Louisiana). — Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. 

 Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882, 48 (Navarro Co., Texas, breeding; habits). 



IQuiscalm'] purpureus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 160, part. 



' Except the lower Hudson Valley. 



