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Status—A species of western Mexico, originally described from ‘‘Monte- 
reale’’ (Vigors, Zool. Journ., 1v, 1829, p. 353). Bonaparte (Conspectus Avium, 1, 
1850, p. 378) added ‘‘California’’, and Baird (Stansbury’s Expl. Salt Lake, 
1853, p. 333) corrupted the type locality to ‘‘Monterey’’. Thus through appar- 
ent error the species was for a time attributed to California. There is in the col- 
lection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia a specimen labelled 
‘‘Qalifornia’’ (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1891, p. 444) ; ‘‘doubtless an 
error’’. 
47 (487) Corvus cryptoleucus Couch 
WHITE-NECKED RAVEN 
Status—Of alleged occurrence in southern California: recorded as nesting 
at Fort Tejon (Bendire, Life Hist., m, 1895, p. 402) ; specimen, not now extant, 
said to have been identified from San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County (J. 
Grinnell, Bds. Los Angeles Co., 1898, p. 32). Rumors of existence on the Mohave 
Desert are not found to be satisfactorily grounded. The species is plentiful in 
southeastern Arizona, thence east to western Texas and south into Mexico. 
48 (——) Trupialis militaris (Linnaeus) 
RED-BREASTED LARK 
Synonym—Sturnella militaris. 
Status—Specimen supposed to have been shot at Monterey (Prevost and Des 
Murs, Voyage of the Venus, 1855, p. 277), but more probably taken on the west 
coast of South America where the same expedition also touched. A specimen 
recorded as no. 4230, Smithsonian Institution, ‘‘was obtained in San Francisco ~ 
by Mr. R. D. Cutts’’ from a collector who ‘‘asserted positively that it had been 
shot by him in San Francisco county’’ (Baird, Pac. R. R. Rep., rx, 1858, p. 534). 
Baird remarks: “‘Mr. Cutts may have been deceived by his informant’’. The 
species belongs to southern South America. 
49 (16.3, hyp.) Icterus icterus (Linnaeus) 
TROUPIAL 
Status—Only one instance: Santa Barbara, April 30, 1911, a male taken 
(Bowles, Condor, xm, 1911, p. 109). The specimen is now in the Bowles collec- 
tion. Probably an escaped ecage-bird. (See Willett, Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, 
p. 112.) The species is native to northeastern South America. 
50 (513a) Megaquiscalus major macrourus (Swainson) 
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE 
Synonyms—Quiscalus major; Boat-tailed Grackle. 
Status—According to Gambel (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1847, p. 203) 
this blackbird was occasionally seen in his day as far north as Upper California; 
Woodhouse makes a similar statement (Rep. Sitgreaves’ Exp., 1853, p. 79). 
But both reports may have really related to areas south and east of the present 
confines of the state, or as far as California is concerned may have really per- 
tained to the Brewer Blackbird. The species belongs to southern and eastern 
Mexico north to southern Texas. 
