262 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



622. Lanius ludovicianus Linn. 



Loggerhead Shrike. 

 Lanius ludovicianus Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 134. 

 [B 237, C 135, R 149, C 187.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, west to the Plains ; north to 

 northern New England. Breeds from the Gulf States to Virginia 

 and casually north, on the Atlantic coast, to southern New Jersey ; in 

 the interior, northward to the Great Lakes, and through western 

 Pennsylvania and New York to New Hampshire, Vermont, and 

 Maine. 



622 a. Lanius ludovicianus ezcubitoiides (Swains.). 

 White-rumped Shrike. 



Lanius excubitorides Swains, in Sw. & Rich. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 



1831, 115, pi. 34- 

 Lanius ludovicianus var. excubitoroides Coues, Key, 1872, 125. 



[B 238, C i3sa, R 149a, C 188.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western North America, from the eastern border of 

 the Plains to the Pacific, except coast of California, and from Mani- 

 toba and the Plains of the Saskatchewan south over the tablelands 

 of Mexico. 



622^. Lanius ludovicianus gambeli Ridgw. 



California Shrike. 

 Lanius ludovicianus gambeli Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 467. 

 [B 2^9i,part, C ic^2i^,part, R i\<)a, part, C 188, part."] 

 Geog. Dist. — Coast of California. 



Family VIREONIDiS. Vireos. 



Genus VIREO Vieillot. 

 Subgenus VIREOSTLVA Bonaparte. 



Vireosylva Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 26. Type, Musci- 

 capa olivacea Linn. 



