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AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS P'LORIDANUS Maynard. 

 FLORIDA RED-WING. 



Similar to A, p. phceniceus, but decidedly smaller, and with bill 

 longer and more slender (both relatively and absolutely); adult male 

 with color 'of middle wing-coverts rather deeper, at least in winter; 

 adult female not constantly different in coloration from that of A. p. 

 phmniceiis, but chin and throat perhaps more often pinkish buff or 

 salmon color, and this color when present rather deeper and often 

 -extended backward over chest. 



Adult mafo.— Length (skins), 195.6-218.4 (209.3); wing, 109.2- 

 114.8 (112.5); tail, 84.8-90.2 (87.9); culmen, from base, 22.9-26.7 

 (24.6); depth of bill at base, 10.9-11.9 (11.4); tarsus, 26.7-30 (28.5); 

 middle toe, 18.8-22.1 (20.3).^ 



Adult fernafe. ^Length (skins), 170.2-185.4 (178.3); wing, 88.9-95.8 

 (92.7); tail, 67.1-74.9 (70.4); culmen, from base, 19.6-21.6 (20.3); 

 depth of bill at base, 9.7-10.4 (9.9); tarsus, 24.4-29.5 (26.2); middle 

 toe, 16.8-19.3.' 



Peninsula of Florida (except southeastern coast and keys?), and 

 along Gulf coast to Galveston, northeastern Texas (breeding).'* 



Ageisms phceniceus (not Oriohts phmiiceus Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., ii, 1871, 284, part (Florida; crit.).— Coues, Key, 1872, 156, part; 2d 

 ed., 1884, 404, part; Check List, 1873, no. 212, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 316, 

 part. — Meeeiam, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 87 (Okahumkee, Florida). — Ridgw.w, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 261, part.— Maynaed, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 

 134, part. 



Agelaius phcmiceus Cassin, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 10, part (monogr.). — 

 A.MERicAN Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 498, part. — Coombs, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 205 (Bayou Teche, St. Marys Parish, Louisiana, breeding). — 

 Wayne, Auk, xii, 189.5, 365 (Wacissa R., n. w. Florida, breeding). — Beybe, 

 Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 106 (Louisiana, breeding). 



Agelaius phosniceiis bryanti (not of Ridgway) Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 320, part (Tar- 

 pon Springs and Punta Rassa, Florida). — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 12; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, no. 

 4986, part; 2d ed., 1895, no. 4986, part (coast Louisiana; Florida, part). — 

 Bbndiee, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 453, part (coast Louisiana; Florida, 

 part). 



Agelaius phoenicem floridarms Maynard, Birds Eastern N. Am., 2d ed., pt. 40 

 [1896], 689. — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 121, no. 498c.— Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, 1901, 154 (geog. range). 



' Ten specimens. 



'' Although slightly different in average proportions from Florida examples, breed- 

 ing birds from the coast of Louisiana (Averys Island) and Texas (Galveston) are so 

 very close to them that I refer them to A. p. floridanus with little hesitation. The 

 females examined agree minutely in coloration with those from Florida, as do also 



