338 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Agelalus phceniceus (not Oriohis phceniceus Linnaeus) Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' 

 E-xpl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 80.— Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.,ix, 1858, 

 526, part (Espia, Sonora) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 401, part; Rep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 18 (Saltillo, Nuevo Leon; Espia, Sonora).— 

 (?) Kexnerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 30, part (New Mex- 

 ico).— Coces, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 90 (Fort Whipple, Arizona); 

 Check List, 1873, no. 212, part— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 10, 

 part (nionogr.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 261, part (lower Colorado Val- 

 ley). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874,281 (Mazatlan). — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 159, part. — Ridgway, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 261, part.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vii, 1882, 200 (Tucson, Arizona, June).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vi, 1883, 350 (La Paz, Lower California, winter). — Sclater, Ibis, 1884, 10, 

 part (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 340, part (in synonymy). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 498, part. — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 453, part (Mazatlan). 



\_Agelmus\ phceniceus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 156, part. 



Agelxus phceniceus Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 316, part. 



yl[gelxus'] phceniceus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 404, part. 



Agelaius gubernator (not Psarocolius guberaator Wagler) Baird, Rep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 18 (Colorado R., California). — Kennerly, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.,x, pt. iv, 1859, 31, part (Bill Williams' Fork and 

 Colorado R., Arizona; Mojave R., California). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., ii, 1874, 281 (Mazatlan; Tepic).— (?) Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 22 (Pinal- 

 Co., Arizona; common resident). 



Agelaius phceniceus longirostris (not Agelaius longirostns Salvadori^) Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 370. — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 128 (Check List, no. 498a). — Price, Bull. Cooper 

 Orn. Club, i, 1899, 92 (Yuma, Arizona, winter). 



A[gelaius'] phceniceus sonoriensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887,370 (Mazat- 

 lan, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Agelaius phceniceus sonoriensis Ridgway', Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; Proc. 

 Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, 1901, 154 (geog. range). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 11; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 498o..— 

 RiioADs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 120 (Santa Clara Valley, s. Ari- 

 zona). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895,453, part. — Nelson, Auk, 

 xvii, 1900, 125 (crit.).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 37 (San 

 Diego, n. w. Chihuahua; Pachico, n. e. Sonora). 



(?) Agelaius Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. , 1859, 301, 304 (CapeSt. Lucas). 



AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS FORTIS Ridgway. 

 NORTHERN RED-WING. 



Similar to A. p. phcBiilceus^ ))ut decidedl}" larger" and with the bill 

 usually relatively nuieh shorter and thicker; adult male and female 

 in winter plumaoe, and Inunature male, similar in coloration to the 

 same of A. p. soiiorioisis; ditlering from the latter in larger size and 

 conspicuously shorter and thicker bill. 



^Agelaius longirostris (not of Vieillot, 1819) Salvadori, Atti del Reale Accad. Scienz. 

 Torino, ix, Apr., 1874, 632 (western Mexico; coll. Count Turati). (See Nelson, Auk, 

 xvii, 1900, 125.) 



'Decidedly the largest of all the forms of A. phaiiiceus. 



