240 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Central and eastern North America. Breeds from Great Slave 

 Lake, central Keewatin, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland south to Montana 

 and Colorado (east of the Rocky Mountains) and southeast to the northern 

 parts of the Gulf States, western Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts 

 (south of New York breeds only west of the Alleghenies) ; winters mainly 

 from the Ohio Valley south to southern Texas; casual in migration on the 

 south Atlantic coast. 



Genus MEOAQUISCALUS Cassin. 



Megaguiscalus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866 (1867), 409. 

 Type, by subs, desig., Quiscalus major Vieillot (Solater, 1886). 



Megaquiscalus m&jor (Vieillot). 



Range. — South Atlantic and Gulf States south in the lowlands and 

 southern part of the tableland in Mexico (both coasts) to northern 

 South America. 



a. MeKaquiscalus major major (Vieillot). Boat-tailed Crackle. [513.] 

 Quiscalus major Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVIII, 1819, 



487. (Mexico and Louisiana.) 

 Range. — Austioriparian Zone of the South Atlantic and Gulf States from 

 Chesapeake Bay to Florida and west to the eastern coast of Texas. 



b. Megaquiscalus major macrourus (Swainson). Great-tailed Crackle. 



[513o.] 

 Quiscalus macrourus Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 299. (Real del 

 Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico.) 

 Range. — Southern Texas south through eastern Mexico, Yucatan, and 

 Central America to northern Colombia, and west over the southern part of 

 the Mexican tableland to Michoacan and Jalisco. 



Family FRINOILLIDJE. Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Genus HESPERIPHONA Bonaparte. 



Hesperiphona Bonapabtb, Consp. Avium, I, 1850, 505. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Fringilla vespertina W. Cooper. 



Hesperiphdna vespertina (Cooper). 



Range. — Central and western North America from Alberta south 

 to northern Mexico. 



