BIKDS OP NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMEKIOA. 835 



Great Bahama; Cay Sal), and adjacent coast of Florida (Lake "Worth; 

 Miami; Cocoanut Grove), including Florida Keys to Key West.' 



(?) AgeloMS phoeniceus (not Oriolus phmniceus Linnaeus) Cabanis, Journ fiir 

 Orn., 1856,11 (Cuba). 



Ageisms phcmweus Coby, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 98. 



[Agelxas] phceniceus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



Agelaius phceniceus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 119 (New Provi- 

 dence, Bai-iamas).— CoEY, Auk, iii, 1886, 221; Birds W. I., 1889, 108 (Baha- 

 mas; Cuba?). 



Algelaius'] phoeniceus bryanti Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 370 (Bahamas- 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Agelaius phoe^iiceus bryanti Bidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896 

 613; Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco, Bahamas); Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, 1901^ 

 154 (geog. range).— American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, 1889, 12, part; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, no. 498?-, part 

 (Bahamas; s. Florida, part); 2d ed., 1895, no. 4986, part (do.).— Northrop, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 71 (Andros I., Bahamas; habits).— Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 

 295 (Berry Islands, Bahamas), 296 (Bimini, Bahamas), 350 (Great Bahama 

 and Abaco, Bahamas), 352 (Cay Sal, Bahamas); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 

 110, 146 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Biminis, Berry Islands, New Providence, 

 Andros, and Cay Sal islands, Bahamas; Florida Keys).— Bendiee, Life Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 453, part (Bahamas; s. Florida, part). 



AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS RICHMOND! Nelson. 

 VEKA CRTJZ RED-WING. 



Similar to A. p. fioridaniis, but slightly smaller; adult female much 

 lighter colored, or about intermediate in coloration between those of 

 A. p. floridanus and A. p. iryanti.^ 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 186.7-215.9 (197.9); wing, 102.6-120.1 

 (112); tail, 72.1-93.5 (82.8); culmen, from base, 20.8-26.7 (23.1); 

 depthof billatbase, 10.4r-12.7 (11.4); tarsus, 25.9-31.2 (27.9); mid- 

 dle toe, 18.8-22.4(20.1).' 



^(^M^!!/mafe.—Length(skins), 157.5-185.4(171.2); wing, 87.6-97.6 

 (91.9); tail-, 63-77.5 (68.3); culmen, from base, 18.5-21.1 (19.6); depth 

 of bill at base, 8.9-10.7 (9.9); tarsus, 24.6-26.4 (25.7); middle toe, 

 16.8-19.1 (18).* 



Coast district and lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas (north 



' I refer three females from southeastern Florida (Lake Worth, Miami, and Key 

 West) to this form with some doubt. They differ from the two Bahaman examples 

 in having the under parts much less purely white. I am inclined to think, however, 

 that these are individual differences which would disappear in a large series of 

 specimens. 



''The adult female of ^. p. richmondi is precisely similar in coloration to that of A. 

 p. sonoriensis, but is much smaller. 



'Thirty-eight specimens. 

 Fourteen specimens. 



Specimens from southern Texas, Tamaulipas ( Alta Mira), and Nuevo Leon are larger 

 than those from farther southward, and have shorter and thicker bills, but the females 



