ORDER PASSERES. 24/ 



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

 Sierra Nevada, and from Mexico north into British America. 



Family STURNIDuE. Starlings. 



Genus STURNUS Linn^us. 



Sturnus Linn. S. N. ed. lo, I. 1758, 167. Type, by elimination, i". 

 vulgaris Liw. 



[-103.] Sturnus vulgaris Linn. 



starling. 



Slurnus vulgaris Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 1758, 167. 

 [B-, C-, R 279, C 363.] 

 Hab. Europe and Northern Asia; accidental in Greenland. 



Famiiy ICTERIDiE. Blackbirds, Orioles, etc. 



Genus DOLICHONYX Swainson. 



Dolichonyx Swains. Phil. Mag. I. June, 1S27, 435. Type, Fringilla 

 oryzivora Linn. 



494. Dolichon3rx oryzivorus (Linn.). 



Bobolink. 



Fringilla orysivora Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 1758, 179. 

 Dolichonyx orysivorus Swains. Zool. Jour. III. 1827, 351. 



[B399, 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 dr. Dolichonyx oryzivorus albinucha Ri.^gw. 



Western Bobolink. ' 



Dolicho7iyx oryzivorus var. albinucha Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. V. 

 Nov. 1873, ^9^- 



