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York,^ western Pennsylvania, the Ohio Valley (including western AVest 

 Virginia and greater portion of Kentucky and Tennessee), central Ala- 

 bama (?), northern Mississippi and Louisiana, Texas (Bexar, Cook, 

 Navarro, and Harris (?) counties), northward to New Brunswick, Nova 

 Scotia, southern Newfoundland, southern Labrador, Great Slave Lake, 

 and Prince Albert, Northwest Territory; west to base of Rocky Moun- 

 tains in eastern New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming (west to Fort 

 Bridger), Montana, etc. During migrations, an occasional straggler 

 to the Atlantic coast district from Maryland southward. 



Quiscalus verncolor (not of Vieillot) Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831,35, part, pi. 

 7; V, 1839, 481, part; Synopsis, 1839, 146, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 

 1842, 58, part, pi. 221.— Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 285.— Nut- 

 tall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 'Can., i, 1832, 194, part. — Haymond, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 291 (Franklin Co., Indiana) .—Baibd, Rep. Pacific R. 

 R. Surv., ix, 1858, 555, part (Iowa; Red R., Manitoba; localities in Nebraska, 

 Kansas, etc.), 927 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 421, part.— Willis, Smithsonian Rep. for 1858 (1859), 283 (Nova Scotia).— 

 Vekeill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 151 (Oxford Co., Maine, breeding). — 

 Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 7 (Forks of Saskatchewan); 1863, 83 (bet. Lake 

 Winnipeg and Hudson Bay). — Samuels, Birds New Engl., 1864, 10. — Coues, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 285 (Lynn, Massachusetts).— Snow, Birds Kansaa, 

 1873, 8.— Maynakd, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1878, 375 (Maine; New 

 Hampshire; Massachusetts). — Sclatbe, Ibis, 1884, 154, part (monogr.); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 394, part. 



(.*") Chlalcophanes] versicolor CABAms, Mus. Hein., i, Sept., 1851, 196. 



Quiscalus purpureus Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 

 1853, 79 (Indian Territory; Texas; New Mexico; " Calif ornia ") .—Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 403, part (ex Gracula purpurea Bartram, = 

 nomen nudum) .—Coves, Check List, 1873, no. 225, part; Birds N. W.,1874, 

 203, part.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 128 (e. Kansas), 138 

 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 61 (Fort Rice, 

 North Dakota; mouth of Tongue R., Heart R., and Yellowstone R., e. Mon- 

 tana).— Snow, Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 8.— Lanodon, Birds Cincinnati, 

 1877, 10; rev. ed., 1879, 11.— Bkewsteb, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 176 

 (Upton, Maine; descr. young).— McChesney, Bull. U.S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr., V, 1879, 80 (Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, Apr. to Oct.) .— Rathbun, 

 Rev. List Birds Centr. N. Y., 1879, 22 (summer resid.) .—Scott, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 145 (w. Missouri).— Covert, Annot. List Birds, etc., 

 Washtenaw Co., Michigan, 1881, 182.— Meeeiam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 231 (Fulton Chain, n. e. New York) ; vii, 1882, 237 (Point du Monts, 

 prov. Quebec, Canada) .—Hatch, Ninth An. Rep. Geol. and N. H. Surv. 

 Minn., 1881, 396 (Minnesota) .— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am. 1881, 148, part.— 

 Chambeelain, Bull. no. 1, Nat. Hist. Soc. N. B., 1882, 42 (New Brunswick, 

 summer resid.).- Hoffman, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxi, 1882, 400 (Fort 

 Berthold, North Dakota).— (?) Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 92 

 (Memphis, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi).— (?) Beckham, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 162 (Bayou Sara, Louisiana).— Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. 

 Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882, 48 (Navarro Co., Texas, breeding; habits). 



IQuiscalus} purpureus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 160, part. 



' Except the lower Hudson Valley. 



