248 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B - C -, R -, C -,] 

 HAB. Dakota, westward to Utah and Nevada, north to Manitoba. 



GENUS MOLOTHRUS SWAINSON. 



Molothrus SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 277. Type, Fringilla pecoris 

 GMEL. = Oriolus ater BODD. 



495. Molothrus ater (BODD.). 



Cowbird. 



Oriolus ater BODD. Tabl. PL Enlum. 1783, 37. 

 Molothrus ater GRAY, Handl. B. II. 1870, 36. 



[B 400, C 211, R 258, C 313.] 



HAB. United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, north into 

 Southern British America, south, in winter, into Mexico. 



495 a. Molothrus ater obscurus (GMEL.). 



Dwarf Cowbird. 



Sturnus obscurus GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 804. 



M[plothrus~\ aterwx. obscurus COUES, B. N. W. 1874, 180, in text. 



[B , C 211 a, R 258^,0314-] 



HAB. Southern United States, from Texas to Arizona and Lower 

 California, south into Mexico. 



496. Molothrus seneus (WAGL.). 



Bronzed Cowbird. 



Psarocolius <zneus WAGL. Isis, 1829, 758. 

 Molothrus ceneus CAB. Mus. Hein. I. 1851, 192. 



[B C R 259, C 315.] 

 HAB. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas, and southward. 



GENUS XANTHOCEPHALUS BONAPARTE. 



Xanthocephalus BONAP. Consp. Av. I. 1850, 431. Type, Icterus icte- 

 rocephalus BONAP. = /. xanthocephalus BONAP. 



