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AdtiU male.— hength (skins), 200-223 (211.3); wing^ 91-99 (95.1); 

 tail, 92-104 (99); exposed culmen, 14.6-17 (16); tarsus, 27-28 (27); 

 middle toe, 16-18 (17)." 



Adult female.— hength (skins), 197-217 (211.1); wing, 88-98 (92.9); 

 tail, 89-101 (96.3); exposed culmen, 15.5-16.5 (16.1); tarsus, 25-27 

 (26); middle toe, 15-17 (15.8).* 



Coast district of South Carolina and Georgia to southern Florida, 

 and westward over the coastal plain of the Gulf States to Louisiana.<- 



[Lanius'i ludovidanus LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 134 (based onPie-griesche 

 de la Louisiane, Lanius ludovidanus, Brisson, Orn., ii, 1760, 162, pi. 15, fig. 

 2).— Gmelin, Syst/Nat., i, 1788,298, part (not of p. 302 <«).— Latham, Index 

 Orn., i, 1790, 69, part. 



Lanius ludovkianus Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 26, 72; Geog. and 

 Comp. List, 1838, 26; Consp. Av., i, 1850, 363.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., 1, 

 1831, 300, pi. 37; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 135, pi. 237.— (?) Jaedinb, 

 Contr. Orn., 1848, 83 (Bermudas, 1 spec, spring 1847).— Swainson, Fauna 

 Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 118, in text (crit.).— Bkehm, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 145 

 (monogr.).- GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 469 (Cuba?; see Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1861, 404).— Gassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phila., 1857, 213 (monogr.).— 

 (?) Bland, Ann. Eep. Smithsonian Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermudas).— 

 ScLATEK, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 359.— DKEssEEand Shakpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond.,.1870, 595, part (monogr.).— Eidgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 149, part.— CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 187.— Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 245, part.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 622, part.— Scott,, Auk, vii, 1890, 14 (Tarpon Springs, Punta 

 Rassa, etc., s. w. Florida; not observed at Key West).— Mortimer, Auk, vii, 

 1890, 342 (Orange Co., Florida; habits).— Shaepe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. 

 xlvii, 1897, p. vii (AndrosL, Bahamas). 



[Lanius ludovidanv^} a. ludovidanus Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 194, part (in 

 synonymy). 



Lanius ludovidanus ludovidanus Palmer (W.), Auk, xv, July, 1898, 248 (crit.). 



"Seventeen specimens. 

 6 Ten specimens, from Florida. 



Specimens from South Carolina and Georgia compare in average measurements 

 vrith Florida exapiples as follows : 



In coloration the two series agree minutely. 



" I have not been able to examine satisfactory specimens from Louisiana, and have 

 doubts as to whether the birds from that State (the true L. ludovidanus) are identical 

 with those from Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. If different the latter (upon 

 which, exclusively, the above descriptions are based) should be called iMiiius ludo- 

 vidanus ardosiaceus (Vieillot), 



<i = Tyrannus tyrannus. 



