362 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — In North America breeds from about lat. 73° on Arctic i.slands and 

 in West Greenland, and from lat. 75° in East Cireenland south to the limit of 

 trees in Mackenzie (at least as far west as long. 120°), northern Manitoba, and 

 in northern Quebec; also in Lapland, Jan Meyen, Kolguev, Novaya Zemlya, 

 Franz Josef Land, and northern Siberia. Winters from southern Quebec and 

 north-central United States (west to North Dakota in migration), irregularly 

 south to the Middle States and Texas, rarely to Kentucky and South Carolina; 

 also in eastern Europe and Asia south to about lat. 30°. 



Calcarius lapponicus alascensis Ridgway. Alaska Longspur. [536a.] 



Calcariiis lapponicus alascensis Ridgway, Auk, XV, No. 4, Oct., 1S9S, 320. 

 (St. Paul's Island, Prybilov [= Pribilof] group, Alaska.) 



Range. — Breeds in northern Alaska, including the Pribilof, Aleutian, and 

 Shumagin islands, and east to the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Winters 

 south to eastern Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, and western Kansas; in migration 

 east to Fort Resolution, Northwest Territory, North Dakota, New Mexico, and 

 eastern Kansas. Accidental in California. 



Calcarius pictus (Sw^ainson). Smith's Longspur. [.537.] 



Emberiza {Plcctrophanes) picla Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Amer., II, 1831 [1832], 250 (pi. 49). (Carlton House, 

 Saskatchewan.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Arctic Zone on the barren grounds from Mackenzie 

 (B'ort Anderson) east to Hudson Bay (Fort Churchill); has been taken west to 

 Fort Yukon. Winters from Kansas to central Texas; east in migration to the 

 prairies of Illinois and southwestern Indiana. Casual in South Carolina and 

 British Columbia. 



Calcarius omatus (Townsend). Chestnut-collared Longspur. [538.] 



Plcctrophanes ornata J. K. Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 

 Pt. ii [Nov. 21, 1837], 189. (prairies of Platte [River] = near the 

 forks of the Platte, in western Nebraska.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition and Upper Austral zones from Montana, 

 southeastern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and Manitoba south to east- 

 central W^yoming, central Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and western Minnesota. 

 Winters from Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa to Arizona, Sonora, and the 

 southern end of the Mexican tableland. Acc'dental in British Columbia, 

 California, Maine, Massachusetts, New York (Long Island), and Maryland. 



Genus PLECTROPHENAX Stejneger. 



Plectrophenax Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 33 [June 5]. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Emberiza nivalis Linnaeus. 



