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513. Quiscalus major VIEILL. 
Boat-tailed Grackle. 
Quiscalus major ViEILL. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXVIII. 1819, 
hee 
(‘B'420/C 2e4, i ama. Co aac 
Geos. Dist.— Coast region of the South Atlantic and Gulf States, 
from Virginia to Texas. 
FamMity FRINGILLIDA. FIncHEs, Sparrows, ETC. 
Genus COCCOTHRAUSTES Brisson. 
Coccothraustes Briss. Orn. III. 1760, 218. Type, Zoxza cocco- 
thraustes LINN. 
SuBGENUS HESPBERIPHONA Bonaparte. 
Flesperiphona Bonar. Compt. Rend. XXXI. Sept. 1850, 424. 
Type, fringilla vespertina COOPER. 
514. Coccothraustes vespertinus (Coop.). 
Evening Grosbeak. 
Fringilla vespertina Coop. Ann. Lyc. N. Y.I. ii. 1825, 220. 
Coccothraustes vespertina Sw. & Ricu. Fauna Bor. Am. IT. 1831, 
269, pl. 68. 
[B 303, C 136, R 165, C 189.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Western British Provinces, east to Lake Superior, 
and casually to Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, New York, and New 
England. 
514a. Coccothraustes vespertinus montanus (Ripew.). 
Western Evening Grosbeak. 
LHesperiphona vespertina var. montana Ripcw. in Hist. N. Am. 
Bds., Land Bds., I. 1874, 449. 
Coccothraustes vespertina montana MEARNS, Auk, VII. July, 1890, 
246. é 
