240 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Rance.— Central and eastern North America. Breeds from Great Slave 
Lake, central Keewatin, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland south to Montana 
and Colorado (east of the Rocky Mountains) and southeast to the northern 
parts of the Gulf States, western Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts 
(south of New York breeds only west of the Alleghenies); winters mainly 
from the Ohio Valley south to southern Texas; casual in migration on the 
south Atlantic coast. 
GENUS MEGAQUISCALUS Cassin. 
Megaquiscalus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866 (1867), 409. 
Type, by subs. desig., Quwiscalus major VieILuoT (Sclater, 1886). 
Megaquiscalus major (VIEILLOT). 
RANGE.— South Atlantic and Gulf States south in the lowlands and 
southern part of the tableland in Mexico (both coasts) to northern 
South America. 
a. Megaquiscalus major major (ViEILLoT). Boat-tailed Grackle. [513.] 
Quiscalus major Vie1tLoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XXVIII, 1819, 
487. (Mexico and Louisiana.) 
Ranee.— Austroriparian Zone of the South Atlantic and Gulf States from 
Chesapeake Bay to Florida and west to the eastern coast of Texas. 
b. Megaquiscalus major macrotrus (Swainson). Great-tailed Grackle. 
[513a.] 
Quiscalus macrourus Swatnson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 299. (Real del 
Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico.) 
RanGgE.— Southern Texas south through eastern Mexico, Yucatan, and 
Central America to northern Colombia, and west over the southern part of 
the Mexican tableland to Michoacan and Jalisco. 
FamMILy FRINGILLIDZ. FINcHEs, SPARROWS, ETC. 
GENUS HESPERIPHONA BonaPARTE. 
Hesperiphona BONAPARTE, Consp. Avium, I, 1850, 505. Type, by orig. 
desig., Fringilla vespertina W. COOPER. 
Hesperiphéna vespertina (CooPERr). 
RanGE.— Central and western North America from Alberta south 
to northern Mexico. 
