290 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS CALAMOSPIZA BONAPARTE. 



Calamospiza BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, Fringilla 

 bicolor Towxs. = Calamospiza melanocorys STEJN. 



G05. Calamospiza melanocorys STEJN. 



Lark Bunting. 



Calamospiza melanocorys STEJN. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 49. 

 [B 377 , C 190, R 256, C 286.] 



HAB. From the Plains of Dakota and Middle Kansas west to the 

 Rocky Mountains, less commonly thence to the Pacific, and south 

 to Northern Mexico and Lower California. Accidental in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



FAMILY TANAGRID^B. TANAGERS. 



GENUS EUPHONIA DESMAREST. 



Euphonia DESM. Hist. Nat. Tang. 1805, . Type, Pipra musica 

 GMEL. ? 



COG. Euphonia elegantissima (BONAP.). 



Blue-headed Euphoiiia. 



Pipra elegantissima BONAP. P. Z. S. 1837, 112. 

 Euphonia elegantissima GRAY, Gen. 13. App. 1849, 17. 



[B 224, C , R 1 60, C .] 

 HAB. Eastern Mexico, and south to Vcragua. Texas (GiRAUD). 



GENUS PIRANGA VIEILLOT. 



Piranha VIEILL. Ois. Am. Sept. I. 1807, p. iv. Type, Muscicapa 

 rubra LINN. 



(107. Piranga ludoviciana (W'ILS.). 



Louisiana Tanager. 



Tanagra ludoviciana WILS. Am. Orn. III. iSn, 27, pi. 20, fig. I. 

 Pyranga ludoviciana RICHARDSON, Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. V. 

 1837, 175- 



