48 PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA No. 3 



296 (500) Agelaius tricolor (Audubon) Bonaparte. 



Tricolored Bi^ackbird. 



Syn. — Icterus tricolor; Agelceus phoeniceus var. tricolor. 



Status— Common resident locally in the interior valleys west of the Sierras, north tc 

 Shasta, east to Lake Tahoe, and south to San Diego. 



297 (501 b) Sturnella magna neglecta (Audubon) Allen. 



Western Meadowi^ark. 



Syn. — Sturnella neglecta; Sturnella hippocrepus. 



Status— Abundant resident in suitable localities almost throughout the State. 



298 (504) Icterus parisorum Bonaparte. 



Scott Oriole. 



Status — Fairly common summer visitant through the desert regions southeast of the 

 Sierras; recorded as breeding east to San Diego and Walker Pass, and north to the Pana- 

 mint Mountains; casually during migration to San Bernardino and Los Angeles. 



299 (505 a) Icterus cucullatus nelsoni Ridgway. 



Arizona Hooded Oriole. 



Syn. — Icterus cucullatus. 



Status — Common summer visitant through the San Diegan district, northwest to Santa 

 Barbara and east to Banning; one record beyond this district : Auburn, Placer County. 



300 (508) Icterus bullocki (SwaJnsonj Bonaparte. 



Bullock Oriole. 



Syn. — Xanthornis bullocki; Yphantes bullocki. 



Status — Common summer yisitant in suitable localities below Boreal; breed's chiefly ir. 

 Upper Sonoran. 



301 (510) Scolecophagus cyanocephajus (Wagler) Cabanis. 



Brewer Blackbird. 



Syn. — Quiscalus mexicaiius; Scotecophagusmexicatius; Scolecophag7is Jerrugineus; Quis- 

 calus purpureus. 



Status — Abundant resident below Boreal nearly throughout the State 



302 (514 a) Cocccthraustes vespertinus montanus (Ridgway) Mearns. 

 Western Evening Grosbeak. 



Syn. — Coccothraustes vespertinus; Hesperiphona vespertina; Hesperiphona vespertina 

 montana. 



Status — Fairly common summer breeding bird in parts of the Boreal Zone on the Sierras. 

 from Mount Shasta south at least to the Yosemite Valley; recorded elsewhere in mid- 

 winter irregularly to the coast arud south as fat as Pasadena.. 



