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(285.2); wing, 137.7-146.8 (143.8); tail, 129.5-139.7 (135.6); cuimen, 

 from base, 32.5-36.3 (33.8); depth of bill at base, 12.2-13.7 (13); tarsus, 

 34.3-38.4 (36.6); middle toe, 25.1-26.7 (25.7).' 



Adult female. — Decidedly smaller than the male and much duller in 

 color, the metallic hues more subdued, sometimes very faint; length 

 (sldns), 236.2-256.5 (251.7); wing, 322.4-133.9 (127.8); tail, 101.6- 

 122.7 (112); cuimen, from base, 27.9-30.2 (29.2); depth of bill at base, 

 11.9-13 (12.4); tarsus, 32.8-36.1 (34.3); middle toe, 22.1-25.4(23.4).' 



Young. — Uniform sooty, rather paler below, where sometimes 

 showing indistinct streaks of darker. 



Atlantic coast district of United States, east of AUeghenies; north 

 to lower Hudson Valley and northern shores of Long Island Sound; 

 breeding south to uplands of Alabama (Greensboro, Anniston, Coosada, 

 etc.), Georgia, and the Carolinas, to Virginia (?) along the coast; occa- 

 sional on western side of AUeghenies, in eastern Tennessee (Roane 

 County, March, April). 



\Qra(Mla\ quiscula Linnjeus, Syat. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 109 (based on Moneaula 

 purpurea C&teshy, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 12, etc., "America septentrionale) ; " 

 ed. 12, i, 1766, 165.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 397.— Latham, Index Orn.,i, 

 1790, 191. 



GraCula quiscola Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 44, pi. 21, flg. 4. 



Chlalcophanes'] quiacalus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 196. 



Slurnus quiscola Daudin, Traits d'Orn., ii, 1800, 316. 



Qluiscalus} quiscula Jordan, Man. Vert. E. N. Am., 4th ed., 1884, 93. 



Quiscalus quiscula American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 511. — 

 Fox, Auk, iii, 1886, 318 (Boane Co., Tennessee, Mar., Apr. — Brewster. Auk, 

 vii, 1890, 208 (Charleston, South Carolina, 1 spec. Nov. 30). — Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 3 (descr.; geog. range; crit.). — Bendire, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 497, pi. 7, figs. 21-23.— Young, Auk, xiii, 1896, 

 283 (Hazleton, Pottsville, and Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, breeding). 



Qluiscalusl quiscula Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 379. 



Quiscalus versicolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxviii, 1819, 488 ("North 

 America"); Gal. Ois., i, 1834, 171, pi. 108.— Bonaparte, Am. Orn., i, 1825, 

 45, pi. 5, fig. 1; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828, 54; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 

 28. — NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 194, part. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 35, part, pi. vii, fig. 1; v, 1839, 481, part; Synopsis, 1839, 

 146, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 58, part, pi. 221. — (7) Swainson, 

 Anim. in Menag., 1838, 298.— Haldemann, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1841, 

 54.— Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 555, part (Carlisle, Pennsyl- 

 vania; Washington, District of Columbia) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 421, 

 part.— SoLATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 140 (e. United States); Ibis, 1884, 154, 

 part (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 394, part— Coues, Proc. 

 Post. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 117 (South Carolina).— Turnbull, Birds B. Penn. 

 and N. J., 1869, 25 (Mar. to Nov.). 



IQutscalusI versicolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 424. 



Gracula barita (not of Linnseus) Ord, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 254. 



(?) Quliscalu^] m««?is Liohtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 18. 



(?) Quiscalus purpuratm Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 298 (North America). 



'Ten specimens. 



