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Status — The status of the red-winged blackbirds of Arizona is as yet unset- 

 tled. The type of A. p. sonoriensis came from Fort Grant, in southeastern Ari- 

 zona,* but breeding birds examined from the San Pedro River, in the same gen- 

 eral region, are A. />. neutralis. It may be that one form (sonoriensis) breeds 

 along the Colorado River and the lower Gila, these river valleys being the only 

 portion of the Lower Sonoran zone which is adapted to the species ; and that the 

 other (neutralis) occupies the higher Upper Sonoran zone in northern and east- 

 ern Arizona. At any rate some form of the red-winged blackbird breeds in suit- 

 able localities throughout the state. Along the Colorado River, and in the val- 

 leys of southern Arizona, they are to be found the year through ; in the winter 

 months the several varieties possibly occur together in the same places. 



206. Sturnella magna hoopesi Stone. 



Texas Meadowlark. 



Synonym — Sturnella magna mexicana. 



Status — Known to occur along the United States-Mexican boundary line, at 

 least in eastern Arizona, specimens having been taken at Camp Crittenden, Fort 

 Huachuca and Calabasas ; also reported from the vicinity of Williams, in the 

 northern part of the state (Wetmore, 1908, p. 381). 



207. Sturnella neglecta Audubon. 



Western Meadowlark. 



Synonym — Sturnella magna neglecta. 



Status- — Resident throughout the state, but irregularly and locally 'dis- 

 tributed, and, for the most part, not very common. In the Mogollon Mountains, 

 ranges up to 10,000 feet ( Mearns, 1890a, p. 257). In southern Arizona occurs 

 in the Lower Sonoran valleys only. 



208. Icterus parisorum Bonaparte. 



Scott Oriole. 



Status — An abundant migrant and fairly common summer visitant in parts 

 of southeastern and central Arizona. It is distinctly a bird of the Upper Sonoran 

 zone, known to breed in southern Arizona, in the foothill regions of the Hua- 

 chuca, Santa Rita, Santa Catalina, Rincon, Quijotoa and Whetstone mountains : 

 doubtless it is to be found in other ranges in the same general region which have 

 not been reported upon. Has also been found in summer at Oracle (Rhoads, 

 1892, p. 120) and at Beale Spring in western Arizona (Stephens, 1903, p. 102). 

 Has not been found in southwestern Arizona, nor at any point along the Colorado 

 River, except for one bird doubtfully identified at Fort Mohave (Cooper, 1870, p. 

 276). 



* According to the A. O. U. Check-List, 1910 ed , p. 233. Ridgway (Birds North and Middle America, II, 

 1902, p. 337) gives it as Mazatlan, western Mexico. 



