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Southern California' (to the Pacific coast in San Diego and Los Angeles 

 counties), northern Lower California, Great Basin district, and south- 

 ern poi-tion of Rocky Mountain plateau; north to eastern British 

 Columbia (Vernon, etc.); breeding southward to northern Chihuahua 

 (Pacheco), New Mexico, and western Texas (Ysleta, 30 miles east of 

 El Paso; Langtr}', Valverde County, etc.); in winter, south to southern 

 Texas (Brownsville, etc.). 



Agelaius phoeniceus (not Oriolvs phamiceus Linn^us) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 526, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 401, part.— Kennerly, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 30 (s. California).— (?) Xantus, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, California).- (?) Cooper and 

 SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 207 (Oregon and Wasliing- 

 ton). — Oassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 10, part (monogr.).— Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 261, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 159, part. — (?) Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1873 (1874), 121 (Apache, Arizona, Aug.).— Bendike, Proc. Bost. Soc.N.H., 

 1877, 122 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon, breeding). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 498, part.— Morco.m, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 

 1887, 47 (Coahuila and San Bernardino valleys, s. California; breeding).— 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 33, part (e. side of Cascade Mts.).— 

 Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 47, part ( Vernon, e. British Colum- 

 bia). — Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 33 (Los Angeles Co., Cali- 

 fornia; resident). 



Agelxus phomiceiis Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1877, 1309 (Carson, 

 Nevada); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 313, part (Utah).— Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 212, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 316, part— (?) Sclater, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 340, part. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1887, 453, part (in synonymy). 



' Specimens from southern California and northern Lower California seem to be 

 somewhat different from Great Basin examples, but 1 do not venture to separate 

 them, the series of specimens being scarcely satisfactory. In adult males of this form 

 many specimens show more or less black tipping to the middle wing-coverts, this 

 being observable in some specimens from the' interior (Nevada) as well as in some of 

 those from the coast (San Diego County, etc. ) . Average measurements are as follows: 



