204 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
496. Callothrus robustus (Cap.). 
Red-eyed Cowbird. 
Molothrus robustus Cas. Mus. Hein. I. Sept. 1851, 193, foot- 
note. 
Callothrus robustus Ripcw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 589. 
[B—, C—, R 259, C 315.] 
Groc. Dist.— Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas, and 
southward to Panama. 
Genus XANTHOCEPHALUS Bonaparte. 
Xanthocephalus Bonar. Consp. Av. I. 1850, 431. Type, /cterus 
icterocephalus BONAP. = L. xanthocephalus BONAP. 
497. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.). 
Yellow-headed Blackbird. 
Icterus xanthocephalus Bonar. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. V. 
Roz, 222. 
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus JORDAN, Man. Vert. ed. 4, 1884, 
g2. 
[B 404, .C. 213. R260, 'Cigtg:] 
Geroc. Dist.— Western North America, from Wisconsin, Illinois 
and Texas to the Pacific coast, and from British Columbia and the 
Saskatchewan River southward to the Valley of Mexico. Accidental 
in Ontario and the Atlantic States (Massachusetts, District of 
Columbia, South Carolina, Florida). 
Genus AGELAIUS VIEILLOT. 
Agelaius Vie1tu. Analyse, 1816, 33. Type, Oriolus pheniceus 
LINN. 
498. Agelaius phoeniceus (Linv.). 
Red-winged Blackbird. 
Oriolus pheniceus LINN. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 161. 
Agelaius pheniceus ViEILL. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXXIV. 
1819, 539- 
