BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 341 



[Agelieus phceniceus} a. phcenicem Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877,503 (locali- 

 ties in Nevada and Utah; measurements, etc. )■ 

 lAgelsma] phomiceus Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 156, part. 



[Agelseus phcmiceus} a. phamicem Codes, Birds N. W., 1874, 186, part fin syn- 

 onymy). > f \ I'j" 



Algelxus'] phcmiceus B.EmnA.^Y, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Exp., 1879, 302 (foot of e. 



slope Sierra Nevada, summer resid.; Carson, Nevada, in winter).— Codes 



Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 402, part. ' 



A[gelaius'] phceniceus . . . var. gubernator Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst vii Jan 



1875, 37 (Nevada). 

 Agelaiua gubernator BEtsomE, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 122 (Camp Harney, e. 



Oregon, breeding; descr. eggs). 

 [Ageisms phceniceus] fd. gubernator Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 504, 505, 



part (Carson City and Truckee Reservation, Nevada). 

 Agelams gubernator {not PsarocoUus gubernator Wagler) Sclateh, Cat. Birds Brit 



Mus.,xi, 1886, 341, part (Reno, Nevada). 

 Ageisms phceniceus . . . var. gubernator Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 



1876,249 (Los Angeles, California, June; Fort Tejon, California, Aug.). 

 Agcelaius phceniceus var. gubernator Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1877 



1305 (e. side Sierra Nevada). 

 A[gelseus] phceniceus gubernator T:iE-!^s-B.A.yf, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 302 



(Camp Harney, e. Oregon; Reno, etc., Nevada; crit.). 

 Agelxus phceniceus gubernator Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 165 (Fort 



Klamath, e. Oregon, breeding).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 128 



(Walla Walla, Washington). 

 (?) Agelaius phmniceus longirostris (not A. Imgirostris Salvadori) Geinnell, 



Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Soi., 1898, 33 (near Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., Cal- 

 ifornia, March, Nov.). 

 Agelaius phomiceus 7ieutralis'RjBGw jly. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 



153 (Jacumba, San Diego Co., California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 154 (geog. 



range). 



AGELAIUS PHCENICEUS CAURINUS Ridgway. 

 NORTHWESTERN. RED-WING. 



Similar to A. p. phmniceus but wing and bill longer, the latter more 

 slender; adult male with buff of middle wing-coverts deeper (deep 

 ochraceous-buff or ochraceous in winter plumage); adult female rather 

 more heavily streaked with blacis: below and, in winter plumage, with 

 upper parts much more conspicuously marked with rusty. 



Adult Tnale.—h&ngth {skins), 218.4-231.1 (222.8); wing, 116.1-129.5 

 (123.2); tail, 86.1-97.3 (91.7); culmen, from base, 22.9-25.7(24.4); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.4^12.2 (11.7); tarsus, 28.2-31 (29.5); middle 

 toe, 21.3-22.4 (21.8).' 



Adult female.— L&ngth. (skins) 172.7-198.1 (189); wing, 97.8-107.2 

 (103.1); tail, 71.1-83.1 (77.5); culmen, from base, 19.6-21.8 (20.8); 

 tarsus, 25.4r-27.9 (26.9); middle toe, 18.3-19.8 (19.1).' 



Northwest coast district, from British Columbia (Vancouver Island 

 and coast of mainland) south through western Washington and Oregon 

 to northern California (Mendocino County, May 20). 



^Nine specimens. 



