210 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



511. Quiscalus quiscula (LINN.). 



Purple Grackle. 



Gracula quiscula LINN. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 109. 

 Quiscalus quiscula JORDAN, Man. Vert. ed. 4, 1884, 93. 



[6421, C 225, R 278, 0335.] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern Alabama, eastern Tennessee, and east of 

 the Alleghanies from Georgia to Massachusetts. 



511 a. Quiscalus quiscula aglceus (BAIRD). 



Florida Grackle. 



Quiscalus aglceus BAIRD, Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, XLI. Jan. 1866, 84. 

 Quiscalus quiscula aglceus STEJN. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 43, foot-note. 



[6422, C , R 2 7 8rt, C 33 6.] 



GEOG. DIST. Florida, and the southern part of the Gulf States to 

 Texas ; north along the Atlantic coast to Virginia. 



51 1. Quiscalus quiscula aeneus (RIDGW.). 



Bronzed Grackle. 



Quiscalus ceneus RIDGW. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1869, 134. 

 Quiscalus quiscula ceneus STEJN. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 43, foot-note. 



[B , 2250, R 278^,0337.] 



GEOG. DIST. From the Alleghanies and southern New England 

 north to Newfoundland and Great Slave Lake, west to the eastern 

 base of the Rocky Mountains, and south to Louisiana and Texas. 

 In migrations, the southeastern States, except Florida and the 

 Atlantic coast district south of Virginia. 



SUBGENUS MBGAQUISCALUS CASSIN. 



Megaquiscalus CASS. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, 409. Type, 

 Quiscalus major VIEILL. 



512. Quiscalus macrourus SWAINS. 



Great-tailed Grackle. 



Quiscalus macrourus SWAINS. Anim. in Menag. 1838, 299. 



[B 419, C 223, R 275, C 333.] 

 GEOG. DIST. Eastern Texas, south to Central America. 



