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RanGcE.— Western and central Europe; winters south to Africa; 
accidental in Greenland; introduced in 1890 in New York City and 
thence has spread as far as Springfield, Massachusetts, Stonington, 
Connecticut, Ossining, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Famity ICTERIDA. Buackpirps, ORIOLES, ETC. 
GENUS DOLICHONYX Swainson. 
Dolichonyx Swatnson, Philos. Mag., N.S., I, June, 1827, 435. Type, by 
monotypy, Fringilla oryzivora LinN@Us. 
Dolichényx oryzivorus (LINN us). Bobolink. [494.] 
Fringilla oryzivora Linnmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. (Cuba.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds mainly in Transition 
Zone from southeastern British Columbia, central Alberta, central 
Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, central Ontario, central Quebec, 
and Cape Breton Island south to northeastern Nevada, Utah, northern 
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, central Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, 
and New Jersey; winters in South America to southern Brazil, Bolivia, 
and Paraguay; in migration to the West Indies and east coast of Cen- 
tral America; casual in California; accidental in Bermuda and 
the Galapagos. 
GENUS MOLOTHRUS SwaInson. 
Molothrus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 277. Type, 
by orig. desig., Fringilla pecoris GMELIN = Oriolus ater BopDAERT. 
Moléthrus ater (BoppDAERT). 
Rance.— North central Canada to the southern end of the table- 
land in Mexico. 
a. Molothrus ater ater (Bopparrr). Cowbird. [495.] 
Oriolus ater BoppAERT, Table Pl. Enl., 1783, 37. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia, south- 
ern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick 
