BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 341 



[Agehnis phceniceus] a. phoeniceus Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877,503 (locali- 

 ties in Nevada and Utah; measurements, etc. ) • 



[Agelxus'] phoeniceus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 156, part. 



[AgeLvus phceniceus] a. phoeniceus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 186, part (in syn- 

 onymy). 



^[;7^^iCMs] p/taraceu.? Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Exp., 1879, 302 (foot of e. 

 slope Sierra Nevada, summer resid. ; Carson, Nevada, in winter). — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 402, part. 



A^gelaius] j)h(fmceu» . . . var. gubernator Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst, vii, Jan., 

 1875, 37 (Nevada). 



Agelaius gubernator BEtiviRE, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 122 (Camp Harney, e. 

 Oregon, breeding; descr. eggs). 



[Agehi'us phceniceus'] fi. gubernator Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 504, 505, 

 part (Carson City an<l Truckee Reservation, Nevada). 



AgeUeus gubernator ( not Psarocolius gubernator Wagler) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus.,xi, 1886, 341, part (Reno, Nevada). 



Agelseus phcemceus . . . var. gubernator Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1876,249 (Los Angeles, California, June; Fort Tejon, California, Aug.). 



Agcelams phceniceus var. gubernator Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1877, 

 1305 (e. side Sierra Nevada). 



A\^gelxus'\ phfeniceus gubernator Yi^^snA^v, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 302 

 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon; Reno, etc., Nevada; crit. ). 



Agel.i'us phamiceus gubernator Mear'ss, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 165 (Fort 

 Klamath, e. Oregon, l)reeding). — Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 128 

 (Walla Walla, Washington). 



(?) Agelaius phainiceus longirostris (not A. longirostris Salvadori) Grinnell, 

 Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 33 (near Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., Cal- 

 ifornia, March, Nov.). 



Agelaius j^hoeniceus neutralis Ridgway. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 

 153 (Jacumba, San Diego Co., California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ), 154 (geog. 

 range). 



AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS CAURINUS Ridgway. 

 NORTHWESTERN RED-WING. 



Similar to A. j)- phosniceus but wing and bill longer, the latter more 

 slender; adult male with buff of middle wing-coverts deeper (deep 

 ochraceous-buff orochraceous in winter plumage); adult female rather 

 more heavily streaked with Idack below and, in winter plumage, with 

 upper parts much more conspicuously marked with rusty. 



Adult m«^^.— Length (skins), 218.4-231.1 (222.8); wing, 116.1-129.5 

 (123.2); tail, 80.1-97.3 (91.7); culmen, from base, 22.9-25.7(24.4); 

 depth of bill at ba.se, 11.4-12.2 (11.7); tarsus, 28.2-31 (29.5); middle 

 toe, 21.3-22.4 (21.8).^ 



AduU fe?7iale.—Ijength (skins) 172.7-198.1 (189); wing, 97.8-107.2 

 (103.1); tail, 71.1-83.1 (77.5); culmen, from base, 19.6-21.8 (20.8); 

 tarsus, 25.4-27.9 (26.9); middle toe, 18.3-19.8 (19.1).^ 



Northwest coast district, from British Columbia (Vancouver Island 

 and coast of mainland) south through western Washington and Oregon 

 to northern California (Mendocino County, May 20). 



^ Nine specimens. 



