ORDER PASSERES. 211 



513. Quiscalus major VIEILL. 



Boat-tailed Grackle. 

 Quiscalus major VIEILL. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXVIII. 1819, 



487. 



[B 420, C 224, R 277, C 334.] 



GEOG. DIST. Coast region of the South Atlantic and Gulf States, 

 from Virginia to Texas. 



FAMILY FRINGILLIDJB. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



GENUS COCCOTHRAUSTES BRISSON. 



Coccothraustes BRISS. Orn. III. 1760, 218. Type, Loxia cocco- 

 thraustes LINN. 



SUBGENUS HESPERIPHONA BONAPARTE. 



Hcsperiphona BONAP. Compt. Rend. XXXI. Sept. 1850, 424. 

 Type, Fringilla vespertina COOPER. 



514. Coccothraustes vespertinus (Coop.). 



Evening Grosbeak. 



Fringilla vespertina COOP. Ann. Lye. N. Y. I. ii. 1825, 220. 

 Coccothraustes vespertina Sw. & RICH. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 1831, 

 269, pi. 68. 



[B 303, C 136, R 165, C 189.] 



GEOG. DIST. Western British Provinces, east to Lake Superior, 

 and casually to Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, New York, and New 

 England. 



514 a. Coccothraustes vespertinus montanus (RIDGW.). 



Western Evening Grosbeak. 



Hesperiphona vespertina var. montana RIDGW. in Hist. N. Am. 



Bds., Land Bds., I. 1874, 449. 

 Coccothraustes vespertina montana MEARNS, Auk, VII. July, 1890, 



246. 



