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mainly south of the Ohio and Delaware valleys to the Gulf coast ; west 

 in migration to the Plains ; casual in British Columbia, Montana, and 

 Colorado; accidental in California, Lower California, and Greenland. 



Euphagus cyanocephalus (WAGLER). Brewer's Blackbird. [510.] 



Psarocolius cyanocephalus WAGLER, Isis, XXII, 1829, 758. (Mexico.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from central British 

 Columbia, Athabaska Landing, Alberta, and southwestern Keewatin 

 to northern Lower California, New Mexico, and western Texas, and 

 from the Pacific to northwestern Minnesota, western Nebraska, and 

 Kansas; winters from southern British Columbia and Kansas south 

 to Guatemala; in migration east casually to Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Missouri, Louisiana, and South Carolina. 



GENUS QUISCALUS VIEILLOT. 



Quiscalus VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 36. Type, by subs, desig., Gracula 

 quiscula LINNAEUS (Gray, 1840). 



Quiscalus quiscula (LINNJETJS). 



RANGE. Temperate North America east of the Rocky Mountains. 



a. Quiscalus quiscula quiscula (LIXN.EUS). Purple Crackle. [511.] 



Gracula quiscula LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758 109. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Middle Atlantic coast region of the United States. Breeds in the 

 Carolinian Fauna from the north shore of Long Island Sound and the lower 

 Hudson Valley west to the Alleghenies and south to the uplands of Georgia, 

 Alabama, and eastern Tennessee ; winters mainly south of the Delaware Valley. 



6. Quiscalus quiscula aglaeus BAIRD. Florida Grackle. [51 la.] 



Quiscalus aglceus BAIRD, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, XLI, Jan., 1866, 84. 

 (Cape Florida, Florida.) 



RANGE. South Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida, and west in 

 the southern part of the Gulf States to southeastern Texas. 



c. Quiscalus quiscula aeneus RIDGWAY. Bronzed Grackle. [5116.] 



Quiscalus ceneus RIDGWAY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, 134. (Mount 

 Carmel, Illinois.) 



