° 1919 J Oberholser, Races of Quiscalus Quiscula. 549 



"Von den Bussarten." 



PI. 15. Falco Bassus. Bacha. p. 55. Falco bacha Daudin, 1800. 



16. F. Rufofuscus. Rounoir. 59. Buteo jakal Daudin, 1800. 



17. F. Rufocanus. Rougre. 62. Falco desertorum Daudin, 



1800. 



18. Falco ocreatus. Busegantee. 63. F. lagopus Gmelin, 1788. 



The specific names given to nos. 10, 15, 16, and 17 appear to be 

 the earliest for their respective species, and should be adopted. 



NOTES ON THE RACES OF QUISCALUS QUISCALUS 



(LINNAEUS). 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



According to the views of current authors there are three sub- 

 species of our common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula (Linnreus). 

 Since, as Mr. A. T. Wayne has recently shown, 1 the Gracula quiscula 

 of Linnaeus 2 is properly applicable to the Florida Grackle (Quis- 

 calus quiscula agla?us), and the Purple Grackle needs another name, 

 it may be worth while to present a few notes on all the forms of the 

 species, with a revised statement of the geographic distribution 

 of each. 



Quiscalus quiscula quiscula (Linnreus). 



[Gracula] quiscula Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. 109 (based 

 on Monedula purpurea Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, and Bahama 

 Islands, I, 1731, p. 12, pi. XII; and Merops niger, viridi-argentea Brown, 

 Nat. Hist. Jamaica, 1756, p. 476) ("Habitat in America septentrionali"). 



[Oriolus] ludoviciauus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, p. 387 (based on 

 Cassique de la Louisiane, Buff on, Hist. Nat. des Ois. [original edition], III, 

 p. 242; Planch. Enlum., No. 646) (partial albino) (Louisiana). 



i The Auk, XXXV, No. 4, October, 1918, p. 440. 

 2 Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. 109. 



