264 ' HECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 3 2S, 3 2 9 , C 155, R 189, C 222.] 



HAB. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas. Rare west of the Rocky Mountains. Accidental in 

 Massachusetts. 



GEXUS RHYNCHOPHANES BAIRD. 



Rhynchophaties BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858,432 (in text). Type, Plcctio- 

 pliaacs inccownii LAWK. 



539. Rhynchophanes inccownii (LAWR.). 



McCown's Longspur. 



Plectrophancs mccoivnii LAWR. Ann. Lye. N. Y. V. 1851, 122. 

 Rhynchophanes maccoicni KIDGW. Field & Forest, 11. May, 1877, 197. 



[B 33 o, C 156, R 190, 223.] 



HAB. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas and Mexico ; breeds from about the northern border of 

 Western Kansas northward. 



GEXUS FOOOffiTES BAIRD. 



Pooccetes BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. Type, Fringilla graminea 

 GMEL. 



540. Poocaetes gramineus (GMEL.). 



Vesper Sparrow. 



Fringilla graminea GMF.L. S- N. I. ii. 1788, 992. 

 Pooccctcs gramineus BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. 



337- /<"'A ^ l()l < K- J 97> c 2 3 2 -] 



HAB. Eastern North America to the Plains, from Nova Scotia and 

 Ontario southward ; breeds from Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri 

 northward. 



0. Poocaetes gramineus confinis BAIRD. 



Western Vesper Sparrow. 



Pooccrtes gramineus v.ir. conjinis BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 448 (in 

 text). 



