511a. FLORIDA GRACKLE. _Quiscalus quiscula aglæus._ Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf States. A smaller variety of the preceding; length about 11 inches. Eggs indistinguishable. 511b. BRONZED GRACKLE. _Quiscalus quiscula æneus._ Range.--North America east of the Rockies, breeding from the Gulf to Hudson Bay and Labrador. Winters in the southern parts of the United States. This is the most common and widely distributed of the Crow Blackbirds and is distinguished by the brassy color of the upper parts. 513. BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE. _Megaquiscalus major major._ Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf States; north to Virginia. This handsome bird measures about 16 inches in length, is iridescent with purplish and greenish, and has a very long, graduated and hollowed tail. These Grackles are very abundant residents along the Gulf, breeding in large colonies in swamps, placing their nests of weeds, moss, grasses, etc., in bushes, trees, canes or rushes, but a few inches above the water, while those in trees are sometimes 50 feet above the ground. The eggs are laid in March, April or May, are from three to five in number, and are a dull bluish or grayish white, streaked, lined, clouded and blotched with brown, black and gray; size 1.25 × .95. [Illustration 325: Dull greenish white.] [Illustration: Purple Grackle. Bronzed Grackle.] [Illustration: Grayish white.] [Illustration: Grayish white.] [Illustration right hand margin.] Page 324 513a. GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE. _Megaquiscalus major macrourus._ Range.--Mexico to southern and eastern Texas. This variety is larger than the last (length 18 inches) and the tail is very broad and flat. Like the former, they nest in bushes, rushes or trees at any elevation from the ground. The nests are built of the same materials and the eggs are similar to those of the Boat-tailed Grackle, but larger; size 1.28 × .88. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. Family FRINGILLDÆ 514. EVENING GROSBEAK. _Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina._ Range.--Western United States in the Rocky Mountain region; north to Saskatchewan; south in winter to Mississippi Valley and casually east to New England and the intermediate states. These are dull and yellowish birds, shading to brownish on the head; with a bright yellow forehead and susperciliary line, black wings and tail, and white inner secondaries and greater coverts. They breed in the mountainous portions of their range, placing their flat nests of sticks and rootlets in low trees or bushes. The eggs are laid in May or June and are greenish white spotted and blotched with brown; size .90 × .65. 514a. WESTERN EVENING GROSBEAK. _Hesperiphona vespertina montana._ Range.--Western United States, breeding in the mountains from New Mexico to British Columbia. The nesting habits and eggs of this variety are the same as those of the preceding, and the birds can rarely be separated. 515. PINE GROSBEAK. _Pinicola enucleator leucura._