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Temperate eastern North America (Canadian district of Boreal 

 Province southward), except peninsula of Florida; north on Atlantic 

 coast to Newfoundland and Magdalen Islands (southern Labrador?), 

 on west side of Hudson Bay to Nelson River, and in the interior 

 nearly to the Arctic coast (lower Anderson River); west to beginning 

 of the arid region. 



Corvus corone (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 79, pi. 25, fig. 3.— 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 56.— Swainson and Eichakdson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 291.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 

 1882, 209. 



Corvus americanuB Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 317 (e. United States; type in 

 colL U. S. Nat. Mus. ?); v. 1839, 477, pi. 156; Synopsis, 1839, 150; Birds Am., 

 oct. ed., iv, 1842, 87, pi. 225.— Bonapaktb, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 29.— 

 Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 221.— Jahdine, Contr. 

 Orn., 1848, 79 (Bermudas, resident). — Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 

 5 (Bermudas, introduced!).- Woodhousb, Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. 

 E., 1853, 78, part (Indian Territory).— Baird, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 566, part (Nelson E., Hudson Bay territory; District Columbia; Illi- 

 nois; Fort Eiley, Kansas; Fort Union, etc., Nebraska?); ed. 1860 (Birds N. 

 Am.), atlas, pi. 23; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 426, part.— Schlegel, 

 Bijdr. Dierk., ii, 1859, 10 (monogr.); Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 24.— 

 CouER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 226 (ofi coast Labrador, 1 spec, July 

 14); Check List, 1873, no. 228, part.— Sol ater. Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 146 

 (Nova Scotia). —Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 7 (plains Saskatchewan). — (7) Allen, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 61 (North Dakota). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 EiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 233, part, pi. 37, fig. 5.— McChesney, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 80 (Fort Sisaeton and Fort 

 Berthold, Dakota).— Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1883, 379 (Gulf 

 St. Lawrence; habits). — (?) Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 321 (w. Manitoba, sum- 

 mer). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 488, part. — 

 CooKE, Bird Migr. Mississippi Val., 1888, 158 (dates, etc.). — Eidgway, Orn. 

 Illinois, i, 1889, 331.— Bishop, Auk, vi, 1889, 147 (Magdalen Islands, breed- 

 ing).— Palmer (W.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 262 (Magdalen and 

 Mingan Islands; St. Johns, Newfoundland). — Macfarlanb, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiv, 1891, 439 (lower Anderson E., breeding). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 568 (Manitoba; habits, etc. ) . — Nutting, Bull. Labrat. 

 N. H. Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 274 (lower Saskatchewan; habits). — Dwight, 

 Auk, X, 1893, 10 (Prince Edwards I., breeding). — Bendiee, Lite Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 405, pi. 4, figs, 8-12, pi. 5, figs. 21, 22 (eggs).— Nehr- 

 LiNG, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 309.— Coubeaux, Ottawa Nat., 1900, 29 

 (s. Saskatchewan, summer res.). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 40 (Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka, n. w. Ontario). — Bailey (Florence M. ); Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 281, part. 



Cl^orvua] americanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 385. — Maximilian, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1858, 198 (critical, habits, etc.). — Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 

 1876, 112 (n. e. Illinois).— Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 362. 



[Corw^ americanus] Barrows and Sohwarz, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric, no. 6, 

 1895, 1-98 (range, habits, food, etc.). 



ICorvus} americanus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 12, no. 6198. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 162, part. 



[Corvus americanus] a. americanus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 206, part. 



\_Corvus americanus] var. americanus Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway', Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 233, part. 



