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120. ICTERUS GALBULA (Linneus). 
BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
“Rare. Have observed it only as an autumn migrant.” 
(1891a). 
No. 639. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 697. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
Nowe Odd specimen—no data. 
121. EUPHAGUS CAROLINUS (Muller). 
Rusty BLACKBIRD. 
“Winter resident. Rare.” (1891a). 
No. 984. Male. Greensboro. Feb. 28, 1892. W. C. Avery. 
No. 985. Female. Greensboro. Feb. 28, 1892. W.C. Avery. 
No. 986. Male. Greensboro. Feb. 28, 1892. W. C. Avery. 
122. QUISCALUS QUISCULA QUISCULA (Linnezus). 
PURPLE GRACKLE. 
“Crow Blackbird.” 
Though Dr. Avery’s manuscript notes on the purple 
grackle are rather voluminous and of considerable in- 
terest, his published notes consist of only’ two or three 
terse sentences. The first of these appeared in 1884, 
in a letter to the Editor of the “American Field:” ‘“Ob- 
tained specimens of Scolecophagus cyanocephales (purple- 
headed grackle) (March 21st). A few individuals of 
this species remain here all summer, build sests and rear 
young.” (1884). 
The other notes appeared in his “Birds Observed in 
Alabama—No. 3,” published in 1891. These follow just 
as they were printed: 
“Quiscalus quiscula; purple grackle.-—Rare, the usual 
form being intermediate between quiscula and agleus. 
“Quscalus quiscula aglaeus; Florida grackle.—Inter- 
mediate between quiscula and aglaeus, but belonging 
rather to the latter form. Resident. Breeds.” (1891a). 
The last paragraph is incorrect. All the spring and 
summer specimens in the collection from the vicinity of 
Greensboro are referable to subspecies guwiscula. The 
only representatives of aglaeus found were three speci- 
mens from Florida; one collected on Indian River, in 
1886, by C. J. Maynard, and two taken at Micco, in 1889, 
by F. M. Chapman. 
