NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
3i0 Arizona; south to Mazatlan...... 498a. A. phoeniceus 
longirostris Satvap.’ Sonoran Red-wing. 
f?. Smaller, with larger bill, and upper parts darker. Male: 
Length about 8.00-8.50, wing 4.50, tail 3.40-3.70 (3.55), 
culmen 1.00-1.05 (1.03), depth of bill at base .40-.42 
(41), tarsus 1.10-1.20 (1.15). Female: Ground-color 
above mixed grayish brown and rusty (the latter 
chiefly on back and scapulars), the top of head 
streaked with black and divided by a very distinct 
lighter median stripe; back and scapulars broadly 
streaked with black and buffy whitish; length about 
6.50-7.00, wing 3.60-3.80 (3.67), tail 2.70-2.90 (2.81), 
culmen .75-.85 (.79), depth of bill at base .38-.40 (.39), 
tarsus .95-1.05 (.99). Hab. Bahamas and southern 
Florida (Miami, Key West, etc.)... 498). A. phoeniceus 
bryanti Rinew. Bahaman Red-wing.’ 
@, Adult males with the middle wing-coverts more or less extensively 
black terminally, the basal portion buff or ochraceous (but 
usually concealed by lesser coverts) ; adult females with dusky 
largely prevailing on lower parts (often nearly uniform dusky), 
and with superciliary stripe not sharply defined (often very 
indistinct). 
Male: Length about 9.00-10.00, wing 4.90-5.65 (5.17), tail 
3.50-4.05 (3.83), culmen .81-1.02 (.89), depth of bill at 
base .40-.49 (.46), tarsus 1.20-1.30 (1.23). Wemale: Above 
nearly uniform brownish dusky, the top of head, back, 
and scapulars more or less distinctly streaked with paler, 
and the wing-feathers with narrow paler (sometimes 
whitish) edgings; lower parts brownish dusky, more or 
less distinctly streaked (never conspicuously) with dull 
brownish gray, the chin and throat pale buffy or pinkish, 
the latter marked with triangular spots of dusky, in lon- 
gitudinal series; length about 7.50-8.50, wing 4.05-4.35 
(4.21), tail 2.90-3.25 (3.04), culmen .75-.78 (.76), depth of 
bill at base .38, tarsus 1.05-1.10 (1.07). Eggs .95 x .68. 
Hab. Valleys of California and western Oregon, and south 
into Mexico. 
499. A. gubernator (WacL.). Bicolored Blackbird. 
c, Adult female entirely uniform deep black, including lesser wing-coverts. 
(Adult male exactly like that of A. pheniceus in color.) 
1 Agelaius longirostris SALVAD., Atti del Reale Accad. Scienz. Torino, ix. April 26, 1874, 632 (western 
Mexico). 
2 New subspecies, The adult male is not appreciably different in plumage from either the common A. 
pheniceus or the Cuban A. aeaimilia, but differs in proportions from both. The National Museum possesses, 
besides Bahaman specimens, an adult male and a female from Miami, Florida (C. J. MaynNaARD, collector), and 
an adult female from Key West (“ Albatross” collection). 
