ORDER PASSERES. 247 



HAB. Rocky Mountain region, westward to the Cascade range and 

 Sierra Nevada, and from Mexico north into British America. 



FAMILY STURNIDJE. STARLINGS. 



GENUS STURNUS LINNAEUS. 



Sturnus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 167. Type, by elimination, S. 

 vulgaris Lixx. 



[493.] Sturnus vulgaris LINN. 



Starling. 



Sturnus vulgaris LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 167. 



[B , C , R 279, 363.] 

 HAB. Europe and Northern Asia ; accidental in Greenland. 



FAMILY ICTERID^l. BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 



GENUS DOLICHONYX SWAINSON. 



Dolichonyx SWAINS. Phil. Mag. I. June, 1827, 435. Type, Fringilla 

 oryzivora LINN. 



494. Dolichonyx oryzivorus (LINN.). 



Bobolink. 



Fringilla oryzivora LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 179. 

 Dolichonyx oryzivorus SWAINS. Zool. Jour. III. 1827, 351. 



[B 399, C 210, R 257, C 312.] 



HAB. Eastern North America to the Great Plains ; north to South- 

 ern Canada ; south, in winter, to the West Indies and South America. 

 Breeds from the Middle States northward, and winters south of the 

 United States. 



494 a. Dolichonyx oryzivorus albinucha RIDGW. 



Western Bobolink. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus var. albinucha RIDGW. Bull. Essex Inst. V. 

 Nov. 1873, I9 1 - 



