138 FAUX A OF XEW EXGL.lXD. 



PASSERES. O.SCIXT:.?. 



ICTERIDAE. 



Yt. — Uncommon simimer resident; very rare in winter. March 

 23-(Dec. 30). 



]\LiSS. — Common migrant and less common simimer resident ; 

 occasional in winter. (Mar. 1; Mar. 11-Xov. 21; winter. Eggs, 

 May 15- June 15 (July 1). 



R. I. — Common migrant and summer resident; rare in winter. 

 Mar. 14-Xov. 3 fJan. 19). ,Eggs, May 16-Jmie 2. 



Coxx. — Common migrant and summer resident; rare winter 

 resident. Mar.-Xov. 4; winter. Eggs, May 9- June 14. 



260. X-Os'THOCEPHALUs XAXTHOCEPHALUs Bonapaitej Jordan. 

 Yellow-headed blackbird. 



Icterus xanthocephalus Bonap.. Jotim. acad. nat. sci. Phila., 

 1826, vol. 5, p. 223. Founded on Say: "Exgixeer Caxtox- 

 MEXT," Iowa. 



Icterus icier ocephalus (Linne). Bonap., Amer. ornith.. 1S25, 

 vol. 1, p. 27, pi. 3, figs. 1, 2. Egg, Bendire, 189.5, vol. 2. pi. 6, 

 fig. 10-12. 



Open prairies, marshes, and sloughs; nests among reeds. 



Me. — Accidental visitor: Spruce Head, Metnic Id., Aug. 17, 

 1882. 



Ma.ss. — Accidental \-isitor: Eastham, two, Sept. 10, 1S77; 

 ^Nlonomoy Id., Sept. 8, 1897; Watertown, Oct. 1-5, 1869. 



Coxx. — Accidental visitor: Hanford. late July, 1SS4; Xew 

 Haven, June, 1878; Stamford, July, 188S. 



261. Agel-vius phoexiceus (Linne) Vieillot. 



Red-winged blackbird; Fire-wing; Marsh blackbird; Quonk- 

 a-ree; Redwing; Swamp blackbird. 



Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, vol. 4, p. 31, pi. 216. Egg, 

 Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 6, fig. 13-15. 



Oriolus phoeniceus Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 161. 

 "ix America septextpjoxali." 



