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646. Megaquiscalus major macrourus (Swainson). 



Quiscalus major Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVIII, 1819, 487, part 

 (Mexico). 



Quiscalus macrourus Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 299 (Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo, Mexico). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 104 (Costa Rica). 

 — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 303 (Costa Rica). 



Chalcophanes macrourus Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 82 (Lepanto, Costa Rica 

 [Ellendorf]). 



Quiscalus macrurus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 104 (Costa Rica). 

 — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 396 (no record south of Hon- 

 duras). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 112 (Puntarenas and 

 Tarcoles). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1887, 482 (Costa 

 Rican references). 



Quiscalus major, var. macrurus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, II, 1874, 214. 



Megaquiscalus major macrourus Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 

 238 (southern Texas, southward through Mexico and Central America to 

 Colombia). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Pigres (Ridgway and Zeledon). 



C. H. Lankester Collection: Palo Verde. 



(Underwood in litt.) : Puntarenas and Las Trojas. 



Carnegie Museum: Bebedero and El Coronado de Terraba (Carriker). 



Six skins. 



The Great-tailed Grackle is not an uncommon bird along the Pacific 

 coast of Costa Rica, but is found in no other part of the country, so far 

 as is now known. It is very fond of the mangroves along the brackish 

 estuaries so abundant in that region. The natives are very fond of its 

 song, and call the bird "Zanate." 



647. Tangavius aeneus involucratus (Lesson). 



Molothrus ceneus Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 81 (San Jose, Costa Rica [Ellen- 

 dorf]). — Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 18, part (Costa Rica). 

 — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 104 (San Jose [Frantzius]). — 

 Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 59 (San Jose, common). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 392 (La Palma de Nicoya). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XI, 1886, 334 (Orosi [Kramer]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, I, 1886, 451, part (Costa Rican references). 



M[olothrus] robustus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, 1851, 193, footnote (Mexico; coll. 

 Berlin Mus.); Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 81 (Costa Rica). 



Callolhrus robustus Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 112 (San Jose, 

 Cartago, Naranjo de Cartago, Alajuela). — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 26 (San 

 Jose; notes on nesting); IX, 1892, 250 (do). 



Tangavius involucratus Lesson, Rev. Zool., II, 1839, 41 (cf. Nelson, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., XVIII, 1905, 125). 



