ORDER PASSERES. eek 
RanGE.— Western North America. Breeds from southern British 
Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southwestern Keewatin, and northern 
Minnesota south to southern California, Arizona, Jalisco, Michoacan, 
and Valley of Toluca, Mexico, and east to southern Wisconsin, central 
Iowa, northern Illinois, and Indiana; winters from southwestern 
California, southern Arizona, and southwestern Louisiana south in 
Mexico to Jalisco, Michoacan, and Puebla; accidental in Greenland 
and in various eastern localities from Ontario and Quebec to South 
Carolina, Florida, and Cuba. 
GENUS AGELAIUS VIEILLOT. 
Agelaius ViEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 33. Type, by subs. desig., “‘Troupiale 
commandeur, Buffon’? = Oriolus pheniceus Linnmus (Gray, 1840). 
Agelaius pheniceus (LINN ®Us). 
RaNnGE.— North America from central Mackenzie south to Costa 
Rica. 
a. Agelaius phceniceus phceniceus (LinNmus). Red-winged Blackbird. 
[498.] 
Oriolus pheniceus LiInNNHUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 161. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— North America east of the Great Plains, except Gulf coast and 
Florida. Breeds from Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Quebec southward; winters 
mainly south of Ohio and Delaware valleys, locally north to Massachusetts. 
b. Agelaius pheniceus sonoriénsis Ripcway. Sonora Red-wing. [498a.] 
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Agelaius pheniceus sonoriensis Ripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 370. 
(Camp Grant, Arizona.) 
RanceE.— Southern California (Lower Colorado Valley) and southern 
Arizona, and south over the coastal plain of Sonora to Tepic. 
c. Agelaius pheniceus bryanti Ringway. Bahama Red-wing. [498b.] 
Agelaius pheniceus bryanti Ripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 370. 
(Abaco Island, Bahamas.) 
RanGeE.— Southeastern coast of Florida, Florida Keys to Key West, and 
the Bahamas. 
