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 SwAixs. F. B. A. II. 1831, 277. Type, Fringilla pecoris 

 Gmel. =: Oriolus ater Bodd. 



495. Molothrus ater (Bodd.). 



Cowbird. 



Oriolus ater Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enlum. 1783, 37. 

 Molothrus ater Gray, Handl. 'J. II. 1870, 36. 



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



Hab. United States, from the Atlantic to vhe 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. 17S8, 804. 



M[olothrus^\ ater \?ir. obscurus Coues, B. N. W. 1874, 180, in text. 



[B — , C 211 rt;, R 258^/, C 314.] 



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

 California, south into Mexico. 



h^Z ^^^' Molothrus seneus (VVagl.). 



Bronzed Cowbird. 



Psarocolius cuneus Wage. 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- 

 rocepJialus Bonap. = /. xanthocephalus Boxap. 



