The Migration of North American Birds 



SECOND SERIES 



XV. YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD 

 AND MEADOWLARKS 



Compiled by Harry C. Oberholser, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey 



YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD 



This beautiful bird is distinctly an inhabitant of the West, for it occurs but 

 casually in eastern North America. The breeding range of the Yellow-headed 

 Blackbird {Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) reaches north to northern Manitoba, 

 northern Saskatchewan, southwestern Mackenzie, and central British Col- 

 umbia; west to southwestern British Columbia and western California; south 

 to southern California, southern Arizona, the States of Jalisco, Michoacan, 

 and Mexico, in Mexico; and east to the valley of Mexico, western Texas, east- 

 ern Kansas, central Missouri, eastern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, eastern 

 Wisconsin, and central Manitoba. It winters north to southern California, 

 southern Arizona, southern Texas, and southwestern Louisiana; south to the 

 States of Puebla, Michoacan, and Jalisco, Mexico. It is of casual occurrence 

 east to Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Florida; and 

 accidental in Alaska, Greenland, Quebec, as well as in the islands of Cuba and 

 Barbados in the West Indies. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



LOCALITY 



Chillicothe, Mo 



Chicago, 111 



Sioux City, Iowa 



Wall Lake, Iowa 



Madison, Wis 



Heron Lake, Minn 



Minneapolis, Minn 



St. Vincent, Minn 



San Antonio, Texas 



Gainesville, Texas 



Wichita, Kans 



Onaga, Kans 



Syracuse, Neb 



Sioux Falls, S. D 



Rapid City, S. D 



Argusville, N. D 



Aweme, Manitoba 



Reaburn, Manitoba 



Qu'Appelle, Sask 



Ft. Chipewyan, Alberta. 



Durango, Colo 



Denver, Colo 



Rupert, Idaho 



Terry, Montana 



Great Falls, Mont 



Flagstaff, Alberta 



Modesto, Calif 



Malheur Lake, Oreg 



Okanagan Landing, B. C 



Number 



of years' 



record 



Average date of 



Earliest date of 



spring arrival 



spring arrival 



2 



March 16 



March 14, 1914 



7 



May 2 



April 10, 1892 



12 



April 20 



April 3, 1887 



7 



April 19 



April 14, 1907 



12 



April 25 



March 23, 1902 



lO 



April 19 



April 10, 1887 



13 



May I 



■ April 21, 1917 



2 



May 2 



April 25, 1896 



6 



April 16 



April 13, 1885 



4 



April 21 



April II, 1876 



6 



April 17 



April 5, 1917 



23 



April 24 



April 13, 1898 



17 



April 19 



April 3, 1904 



4 



April 27 



April 17, 1910 



6 



May 8 



April 26, 1905 



12 



May 2 



April 19, 1884 



18 



April 30 



April 13, 1897 



II 



May 2 



April 24, 1897 



16 



April 30 



April 6, 1913 

 May 24, 1901 



4 



April 27 



April 10, 191 7 



8 



April 14 



March 30, 1907 



3 



April 16 



April 6, 191 2 



5 



May 9 



May 5, 1899 



4 



May 8 



May 6, 1912 



7 



April 28 



April 16, 1915 



3 



April II 



April I, 1908 



4 



April 21 



April I, 1915 



3 



May 16 



May 14, 1914 



(78) 



