204 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



496. Callothrus robustus (Cab.). 



Red-eyed Cowbird. 



Molothrus robustus Cab. Mus. Hein. I. Sept. 185 1, 193, foot- 

 note. 

 Callothrus robustus Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 5^9* 



[B— C— R259, C315.] 



Geog. Dist. — Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas, and 

 southward to Panama. 



Genus XANTHOCEPHALUS Bonaparte. 



Xanthocephalus Bonap. Consp. Av. I. 1850, 431. Type, Icterus 

 icterocephalus Bonap. = /. xanthocephalus Bonap. 



497. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.). 



Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



Icterus xanthocephalus Bonap. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. V. 



1826, 223. 

 Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 4, 1884, 



92. 



[B 404, C 213, R 260, C 319.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western North America, from Wisconsin, Illinois 

 and Texas to the Pacific coast, and from British Columbia and the 

 Saskatchewan River southward to the Valley of Mexico. Accidental 

 in Ontario and the Atlantic States (Massachusetts, District of 

 Columbia, South Carolina, Florida). 



Genus AGELAIUS Vieillot. 



Agelaius Vieill. Analyse, 18 16, t^Z- Type, Oriolus phoeniceus 

 Linn. 



498. Agelaius phoeniceus (Linn.). 



Red-winged Blackbird. 



Oriolus phoeniceus Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 161. 

 Agelaius phoeniceus Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXIV. 

 1819, 539- 



