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AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS FLORIDANUS Maynard. 

 FLORIDA RED-WING. 



Similar to A. p. pJmniceus, but decidedly smaller, and with bill 

 longer and more slender (both relatively and absolutely); adult male 

 with color of middle wing-coverts rather deeper, at least in winter; 

 adult female not constantly different in coloration from that of A. p. 

 phcenkem, but chin and throat perhaps more often pinkish l)uff or 

 salmon color, and this color when present rather deeper and often 

 extended backward over chest. 



Adult m«Z^.— Length (skins), 195.6-218.4 (209.8); wing, 109.2- 

 114.8 (112.5); tail, 84.8-90.2 (87.9); culmen, from base, 22.9-26.7 

 (24.6); depth of bill at base, 10.9-11.9 (11.4); tarsus, 26.7-30 (28.5)- 

 middle toe, 18.8-22.1 (20. 8). > ' 



Adult fet,uae.-~\j^ngi\\ (skins), 170.2-185.4 (178.3); wing, 88.9-95.8 

 (92.7); tail, 67.1-74.9 (70.4); culmen, from base, 19.6-21.6 (20.3); 

 depth of bill at l)ase, 9.7-10.4 (9.9); tarsus, 24.4-29.5 (26 2)- middle 

 toe, 16.8-19.3.' 



Peninsula of Florida (except southeastern coast and keys?), and 

 along Gulf coast to Galveston, northeastern Texas (breeding).' 



Agelsens plmniceus (not Oriolni^ pJuniiceus Linna?u8) Allen, Bull. Mus. Gomp 

 Zool., ii, 1871, 284, part (Florida; crit.).-CouES, Key, 1872, 156, part; 2d 

 ed., 1884, 404, part; Check List, 1873, no. 212, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 316 

 part.-MERRiAM, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 87 (Okahumkee, Florida). -Ridgway,' 

 Nom. N. Am. Bird.s, 1881, no. 261, part.— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881,' 

 134, part. 



Agelaius plmniceus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 10, part (monogr.).— 

 American Ornithologi.sts' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 498, part.— Coombs 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 205 (Bayou Teche, 8t. Marys Parish, Louisiana, breeding).- 

 Wayne, Auk, xii, 1895, 365 (WacissaR., n. w. Florida, breeding). -Beyer 

 Proc. Louis. 8oc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 105 (Louisiana, breeding). 



Agelauts jilmnicem hryanti (not of Ridgway) Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 320, part (Tar- 

 pon Springs and Punta Rassa, Florida).— American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 12; Check List, abridged ed. 1889 no 

 4986, part; 2d ed., 1895, no. 4986, part (coast Louisiana; Florida, part) - 

 Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 453, part (coast Louisiana; Florida, 

 part). 



Agelaius pJmnicem jJorldmms Maynard, Birds Eastern N. Am., 2d ed., pt. 40 



[1896], 689.— American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 



121,jio. 498c.— Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, 1901, 154 (geog. rknge).' 



^ Ten specimens. 

 _ ^Although slightly different in average proportions from Florida examples breed- 

 nig birds from the coast of Louisiana (Averys Island) and Texas (Galveston) are so 

 very close to them that I refer them to A. p. floridanus with little hesitation. The 

 temales examined agree minutely in coloration with those from Florida, as do also 



