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Great Bahama; Cay Sal), and adjacent coast of Florida (Lake Worth; 

 Miami; Cocoanut Grove), including- Florida Keys to Key West.^ 



(?) Agelaeus phoeniceus (not Oriolus phoeniceus Linnseus) Cabanis, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1856, 11 (Cuba). 



Agelw'us phceniceus Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 98. 



[Agelieus'] phoeniceus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



Agelaius phoeniceus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 119 (New Provi- 

 dence, Baliamas).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 221; Birds W. I., 1889, 108 (Baha- 

 mas; Cuba?). 



A [gelniusy phoeniceus bryantl Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 370 (Baliamas; 

 " coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Agelaius phoeniceus hryanti Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 

 613; Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco, Bahamas); Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, 1901, 

 154 (geog. range). — American ORNiTiiOLOcnsTs' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, 1889, 12, part; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, no. 498/>, part 

 (Bahamas; s. Florida, part); 2d ed., 1895, no. 4986, part (do.). — Northrop, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 71 (Andros I., Bahamas; hal)its).— Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 

 295 (Berry Islands, Bahamas), 296 (Bimini, Bahamas), 350 (Great Bahama 

 and Abaco, Bahamas), 352 (Cay Sal, Bahamas); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 

 110, 146 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Biminis, Berry Islands, New Providence, 

 Andros, and Cay Sal islands, Bahamas; Florida Keys). — Bendire, Life Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 453, part (Bahamas; s. Florida, part). 



AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS RICHMONDI Nelson. 

 VERA CRUZ RED-WING. 



-Similar to A. p. floridaowx, but slightly smaller; adult female much 

 lighter colored, or about intermediate in coloration between those of 

 A. p. floridamis and A. p. hryanti.^ 



Adult male.—ljQngih (skins), 1S6.7-215.9 (197.9); wing-, 102.0-120.1 

 (112); tail, 72.1-93.5 (82.8); cidmen, from base, 20.8-26.7 (23.1); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.4-12.7 (ll.i); tarsus, 25.9-31.2 (27.9); mid- 

 dle toe, 18.8-22.4(20.1).' 



Adult fe)iiale.—L(ingi\i{ii\dnii), 157.5-185.4(171.2); wing, 87.6-97.5 

 (91.9); tail, 63-77.5 (68.3); culmen, from base, 18.5-21.1 (19.6); depth 

 of bill at base, 8.9-10.7 (9.9); tarsus, 24.6-26.4 (25.7); middle toe, 

 16.8-19.1 (18).' 



Coast district and lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas (north 



' I refer three females from southeastern Florida (Lake Worth, Miami, and Key 

 West) to this form with some doubt. They differ from the two Bahaman examples 

 in having the under i^arts much less purely white. I am inclined to thifik, however, 

 that these are individual differences which would disappear in a large series of 

 specimens. 



■■'The adult female of A. p. richmondi is precisely similar in coloration to that of A. 

 p. sovoriensis, but is much smaller. 



^Thirty-eight specimens. 



■* Fourteen specimens. 



Specimens from southern Texas, Tamauli pas ( Alta Mira), and Nuevo Leon are larger 

 than those from farther southward, and have shoiter and thicker bills, Irit the females 



