262 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



622. Lanius ludovicianus LINN. 



Loggerhead Shrike. 



Lanius ludovicianus LINN. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 134. 

 [B 237, C 135, R 149, C 187.] 



GEOG. DIST. Eastern United States, west to the Plains ; north to 

 northern New England. Breeds from the Gulf States to Virginia 

 and casually north, on the Atlantic coast, to southern New Jersey ; in 

 the interior, northward to the Great Lakes, and through western 

 Pennsylvania and New York to New Hampshire, Vermont, and 

 Maine. 



622 #. Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides (SWAINS.). 



White-rumped Shrike. 



Lanius excubitorides SWAINS, in Sw. & RICH. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 



1831, 115, pi. 34. 

 Lanius ludovicianus var. excubitoroides COUES, Key, 1872, 125. 



[B 238, C 1350, R 1490, C 188.] 



GEOG. DIST. Western North America, from the eastern border of 

 the Plains to the Pacific, except coast of California, and from Mani- 

 toba and the Plains of the Saskatchewan south over the tablelands 

 of Mexico. 



622 . Lanius ludovicianus gambeli RIDGW. 



California Shrike. 



Lanius ludovicianus gambeli RIDGW. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 467. 



[B 23%, part, C \$$a,part, R itya^part, C 188, fart.] 

 GEOG. DIST. Coast of California. 



FAMILY VIREONIDJE. VIREOS. 



GENUS VIREO VIEILLOT. 

 SUBGENUS VIREOS YLV A BONAPARTE. 



Vireosylva BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 26. Type, Musci- 

 capa olivacea LINN. 



