296 CHECK-LIST OF NOETH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot. Cedar Waxwing. [619.] 



BombyciUa cedrorum Vieillot, Ois Amer. Sept., 1, 1807 (1808), 88, pi. 57. 

 (Eastern North America?) 



Range. — North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition, and 

 Upper Austral zones from central British Columbia, central Alberta, 

 southern Keewatin, northern Ontario, northwestern Quebec, and Cape 

 Breton Island south to southern Oregon, northern New Mexico, 

 Kansas, northern Arkansas, and North Carolina; winters throughout 

 nearly all of the United States and southward to Cuba, Mexico, and 

 Panama; accidental in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, and British 

 Isles. 



Family PTILOGONATIDiE. Silky Flycatchers. 



Genus PHAINOPEPLA Baird. 



Phainopepla Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 923. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Ptilogonys nitens Swainson. 



Phainopepla nitens (Swainson). Phainopepla. [620.] 



Ptilogonys nitens Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 285. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran Zone from central California, southern 

 Utah, and southwestern Texas south to Cape San Lucas, Vera Cruz, 

 Puebla, and Valley of Mexico; winters from southern California 

 southward; casual in central Nevada and northern California. 



Family LANIID.2:. Shrikes. 



Genus LANIUS Linnaeus. 



Lanius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 93. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Lanius excuHtor LiNNiBus (Swainson, 1824). 



Lanius boreaiis Vieillot. Northern Shrike. [621.] 



Lanius borealis Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807 (1808), 80, pi. 50. 

 (Northeastern United States?) 



