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RANGE. 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. 



FAMILY ICTERID-ffl. BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 



GENUS DOLICHONYX SWAINSON. 



Dolichonyx SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 435. Type, by 

 monotypy, Fringilla oryzivora LINN.EUS. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus (LINNAEUS). Bobolink. [494.] 



Fringitta oryzivora LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. (Cuba.) 



RANGE. 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 BODDAERT. 



Molothrus ater (BODDAERT). 



RANGE. North central Canada to the southern end of the table- 

 land in Mexico. 



a. Molothrus ater ater (BODDAERT). Cowbird. [495.] 



Oriolus ater BODDAERT, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 37. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia, south- 

 ern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick 



