2IO CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



511. Quiscalus quiscula (Linn.). 



Purple Grackle. 



Gracula quiscula Linn. S. N. ed. lo, 1758, 109. 

 Quiscalus quiscula Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 4, 1884, 93. 

 [B 421, C 225, R 278, C33S.J 

 Geog. Dist. — Northern Alabama, eastern Tennessee, and east of 

 the Alleghanies from Georgia to Massachusetts. 



511 a. Quiscalus quiscula aglseus (Baird). 

 Florida Grackle. 



Quiscalus aglcBus Baird, Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, XLI. Jan. 1866, 84. 

 Quiscalus quiscula aglcBus Stejn. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 43, foot-note. 

 [B422, C— , R278a, C336.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Florida, and the southern part of thc/Gulf States to 

 Texas ; north along the Atlantic coast to Virginia. 



511^. Quiscalus quiscula seneus (Ridgw.). 



Bronzed Grackle. 



Quiscalus ceneus Ridgw. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1869, 134. 



Quiscalus quiscula aneus Stejn. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 43, foot-note. 



[B— , C22S«, R278^, C337.J 



Geog. Dist. — From the Alleghanies and southern New England 



north to Newfoundland and Great Slave Lake, west to the eastern 



base of the Rocky Mountains, and south to Louisiana and Texas. 



In migrations, the southeastern States, except Florida and the 



Atlantic coast district south of Virginia. 



Subgenus MBGAQUISCALUS Cassin. 



Megaquiscalus Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, 409. Type, 

 Quiscalus major Vieill. 



512. Quiscalus macrourus Swains. 



Great-tailed Grackle. 



Quiscalus macrourus Swains. Anim. in Menag. 1838, 299. 

 [B 419, C 223, R 27s, C 333.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern Texas, south to Central America. 



