160 Howell and van Rossem, Red-winged BlacKbifds. [April 



River, 18; Ft. Bassenger, 2; Kissimmee (24 miles southwest), 1 

 Southport Canal (Osceola County), 1; Ft. Thompson, 3; Alva, 9 

 Ft. Myers, 20; Pine Island, Charlotte Harbor, 11; Gulfport, 6 

 Seminole, 1; Pasadena, 2; Pass-a-Grille, 8; Indian Rocks (Pinellas 

 Co.), 4; Clearwater, 3; Seven Oaks, 1; Port Richey, 3; Chassa- 

 howitzka River, 2; Cedar Keys, 3; Sumner, 3; Lukens, 4; Grassy 

 Island, Taylor County, 2; Aucilla River (mouth), 2; Apalachicola,l. 



Agelaius phoeniceus floridanus Maynard 



Maynakd's Redwing 



Agelaius phoeniceus floridanus Maynard, Birds East. North Amer., 2nd 



ed., part 40, p. 698, 1896 (Key West, Florida). 

 Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti Ridgway, Birds North and Middle Amer., 

 Bull. 50 U. S. Nat. Mus., part 2, pp. 334-335, 1902 (part; specimens 

 from Lake Worth, Miami, and Key West). 



Range. — ^Resident on the Florida Keys and the southern end of the 

 Florida Peninsula, north at least to Lake Worth on the east coast and to 

 Everglade, Collier County, on the west coast. 



Suhspecific characters. — Compared with mearnsi: In size and proportions 

 practically identical; coloration of upper parts in females paler, less brown- 

 ish, and more extensively marked with whitish; supercihary stripe averag- 

 ing broader and more whitish (less buffy); underparts more whitish 

 (less buffy). Compared with bryanti: Size similar; bill of similar propor- 

 tions but averaging shorter; coloration of females decidedly more brownish 

 (less whitish) below and more brownish and less extensively flecked with 

 whitish above. This race is thus intermediate in color between the 

 strongly brown race of central Florida (mearnsi) and bryanti, the whitest 

 of all the races of phoeniceus. 



Remarks. — Described by Maynard in 1895 from Key West, 

 this race was accepted by Ridgway in his 'Birds of North and 

 Middle America' (part 2, p. 333, 1902), but by a strange incon- 

 sistency the range assigned to it definitely excluded its type 

 region, whereas the Keys birds were referred to bryanti. Following 

 this it was introduced into the third edition of the A. O. U. 'Check- 

 List,' where the same error was perpetuated, its range being given 

 as "Florida (except the southeastern coast and Keys), and west 

 along the Gulf coast at least to Galveston, Texas. " 



When Mearns, in 1911, applied the name 'phoeniceus to the 

 central Florida form, he relegated ^orirfawMS to synonymy. Recent 

 collections from extreme south Florida and the Keys, however. 



