CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 321 
249 (497) Yellow-headed blackbird! 
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.) 
250 (498) *Red-winged blackbird 
Agelaius phoeniceus (Linn.) 
251 (501) *Meadowlark 
Sturnella magna (Linn.) 
252 (506) *Orchard oriole 
Icterus spurius (Linn.) 
1Mr David Bruce of Brockport has recently donated to the New York state museum 
a beautiful male of this species, taken at East Rochester 15 Sep. 1898, by Mr S. W. 
Werden of Rochester. This is the first state record for the species. 
