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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Southern Culiforniji' (to the Paeific coast in San Diego and Lo.s Angeles 

 counties), northern Lower California, Great Basin district, and south- 

 ern portion of Rocky Mountain plateau; north to eastern British 

 Colinnbia (Vernon, etc.); breeding southward to northern Chihuahua 

 (Pacheco), New Mexico, and western Texas (Ysleta, 80 miles east of 

 El Paso; Langtr^', Valverde County, etc.); in winter, south to southern 

 Texas (Brownsville, etc.). 



Agelaius pJicenicens (not Oriolus phccniceus Linn;eiis) Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 526, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 401, part. — Kennkkly, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 30 (s. California).— (?) Xantus, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, California).— (?) Cooper and 

 SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, j)t. ii, 1860, 207 (Oregon and Washing- 

 ton). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 10, part (nionogr. ). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 261, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Rn)GWAV, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 159, part. — (?) Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1873 (1874), 121 (Apache, Arizona, Aug.).— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc.N. H., 

 1877, 122 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon, breeding). — -American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 498, part.— Morcom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 

 1887, 47 (Coahuila and San Bernardino valleys, s. California; breeding). — 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 33, part (e. side of Cascade Mts.).— 

 Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 47, part (Vernon, e. British Colum- 

 bia). — Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 33 (Los Angeles Co., Cali- 

 fornia; resident). 



Agelxus phceniceus Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1877, 1309 (Carson, 

 Nevada); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 313, part (Utah).— Coces, Check 

 List, 1873, 110.212, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 316, part.— (?) Sclater, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 340, part. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1887, 453, part (in synonymy). 



'Specimens from southern California and northern Lower California seem to be 

 somewhat different from Great Basin examples, but I do not venture to separate 

 them, the series of specimens being scarcely satisfactory. In adult males of this form 

 many specimens show more or less black tipping to the middle wing-coverts, this 

 being observable in some specimens from the interior (Nevada) as well as in some of 

 those from the coast (San Diego County, etc. ). Average measurements are as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Eleven adult males from Los Augeles County and 

 northward 



Ten adult males from San Diego 



Six adult males from Seven Wells' and Tecate, 

 Lower California 



Eleven adult males from Great Basin 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Riverside and Red Bluff 



Ten adult females from San Diego 



One adult female from Tecate Mountains, Lower 



California 



Seven adult females from Great Basin 



Middle 

 toe. 



22. 1 

 22. 1 



21.8 

 21.1 



18 

 19.3 



18.8 

 18 



