BIRDS OF WOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 245 



Collurio ludovicumus, var. excubitoroides Baird, Brewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, i, 1874, 421, part.— Puhdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1887, 21 



(Cranston, Rhode Island, 1 spec, Sept. 2). — Mereiam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, iii, 1878, 54 (Lewis Co., New York).— Langdon, Bull. Nutt. Orn.Club, 



iv, 1879, 120 ( Madison ville, Ohio, Aug. 22). 

 C[oKitno] ludovicianus, var. excubitoroides Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 



104 (Illinois, chiefly on prairies). 

 Lanius ludovicianus excubitoroides Mebkiam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 228 



(Lewis Co., New York, breeding). 

 CoUurio ludovicianus Ya.r. excubitoroides . . h. excubitoroides Coves, BirdB 'N.W., 



1874, 102, part. 

 Clollurio'] ludovicianus . . var. excubitoroides Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 



1874, 371 (Illinois). 



Lanius ludovicianus excubilorides Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 561, part; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 188, part.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 149a, part. — Cahoon, Forest and Stream, xix, no. 12, Oct., 1882 (Taunton, 

 Massachusetts, Sept. 12). — American Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 622a, part.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 233, part (Minne- 

 sota; Iowa; Wisconsin; Illinois; Indian Territory ?). — Averill, Auk, vi, 

 1889, 74 (Bridgeport, Connecticut, 5 specimens, August). — Miller, Auk, viii, 

 1891, 119 (Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Aug. 22). — McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 

 1894, 346 (Hamilton, Ontario, breeding). — Ulrey and Wallace, Proc. Ind. 

 Acad. Sci., 1895, 156 (Wabash, Indiana, summer resid.). 



{Lanius ludovicianus^ b. excubitorides Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 194 (excl. 

 syn. part). 



Lanius ludovicianus (not of Linnseus) Woodhodsb, in Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 76 (Indian Territory; Texas).— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1853, 308 (Wisconsin).— MiNOT, Birds New Engl., 1877, 105 (Massachu- 

 setts). — Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club., iv, 1879, 119 (Concord, New Hamp- 

 shire, Jan. 20) ; v, 1880, 50 (Abbott, Maine, breeding).— PnRDiE, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 186 (breeding at Bangor, Maine; Saybrook, Connecticut, 

 Nov., Jan.).— Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 223 (Long Beach, New 

 Jersey, Apr. 5).— Bagg, Bull. Nutt. Orn.Club, iv, 1879, 237 (Oneida Co., 

 New York, July 19).— Lee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 118 (St. Law- 

 rence Co., New York, July 23, Aug. 9). — Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 

 1880, 118 (crit.).— Knowlton, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1882, 64 (w. Ver- 

 mont, breeding). — Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 253 (District 

 of Columbia). — Wintlb, Auk, i, 1884, 193 (Montreal, breeding). — Browne, 

 Auk, i, 1884, 291 (Framingham, Massachusetts, Jan. 29). — Frost, Auk, ii, 

 1885, 379 (Hanover, New Hampshire, breeding; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs).— Fox, Auk, iii, 1886, 317 (Roane Co., Tennessee, Mar. 18, 20).— 

 DuTCHEE, Auk, vi, 1889, 138 (Suffolk Co., Long Island, Aug. 28).— Chap- 

 man, Auk, vi, 1889, 304 (Tappan, New Jersey, Aug. 24). — Goss, Hist. Birds 

 Kansas, 1891, 517. — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 316, part, pi. 

 17, fig. 4. — Stone, Auk, xi, 1894, 139 (Cape May, New Jersey, summer). — 

 McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 1894, 345 (near Hamilton). — Butler, Birds Indi- 

 ana, 1897, 1006 (whole State; summer resid., wintering in southern pprt). — 

 Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 43 (Beaumaris, n. Ontario). — Moore, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 196 (York Co., New Brunswick, breeding). 



L[anius'] ludovicianus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 467, part. 



Collurio ludovicianus Allen, Mem. Boat. Soc. N. H., i, 1868, 495 (w. Iowa); Am. 



Nat., 1869, 579 (New York and New England examples; crit.). — Puedie, 



• Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 115 (Massachusetts). — MAYNARD,«Am. Sportsman, v, 



1875, 313 (Newtonville, Massachusetts).— Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



