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120. ICTERUS GALBULA (Linnseus). 

 Baltimore Oriole. 



"Rare. Have observed it only as an autumn migrant." 

 (1891a). 



No. 639. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 697. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 

 No Odd specimen — no data. 



121. EUPHAGUS CAROLINUS (Muller). 

 Rusty Blackbird. 



"Winter resident. Rare." (1891a). 



No. 984. Male. Greensboro. Feb. 28, 1892. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 985. Female. Greensboro. Feb. 28, 1892. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 986. Male. Greensboro. Feb. 28, 1892. W. C. Avery. 



122. QUISCALUS QUISCULA QUISCULA (Linnseus). 

 Purple Grackle. 

 "Crow Blackbird." 



Though Dr. Avery's manuscript notes on the purple 

 grackle are rather voluminous and of considerable in- 

 terest, his published notes consist of onlj' two or three 

 terse sentences. The first of these appeared in 1884, 

 in a letter to the Editor of the "American Field :" "Ob- 

 tained specimens of Scolecophagits cyanocephcUes (purple- 

 headed grackle) (March 21st). A few individuals of 

 this species remain here all- summer, build nests and rear 

 young." (1884). 



The other notes appeared in his "Birds Observed in 

 Alabama — No. 3," published in 1891. These follow just 

 as they were printed : 



"Quiscalus quiscula; purple grackle. — Rare, the usual 

 form being intermediate between quiscula and a^la&us. 



"QuisccUus quiscula aglaeus; Florida grackle. — Inter- 

 mediate between quiscula and aglaeus, but belonging 

 rather to the latter form. Resident. Breeds." (1891a) . 



The last paragraph is incorrect. All the spring and 

 summer specimens in the collection from the vicinity of 

 Greensboro are referable to subspecies quiscula. The 

 only representatives of aglaeus found were three speci- 

 mens from Florida; one collected on Indian River, in 

 1886, by C. J. Maynard, and two taken at Micco, in 1889, 

 by F. M. Chapman, 



