270 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds on the tundras of northern Siberia and locally in northern 

 Europe. Winters southward to southern China, Egypt, and Abyssinia. 

 Accidental in western Alaska (St. Michael, 1867), ^ Aleutian Islands, - and 

 Lower California (San Jose del Cabo, Jan. 2t), 1883).^ 



Anthus spraguei (Audubon). Sprague's Pipit. [700.] 



Alauda Spragueii Audubon, Birds Amer. (octavo ed.), VII, 1844, 334 (pi. 

 486). (Near Ft. Union [western North Dakota].) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition Zone from west-central Saskatchewan and 

 southern Manitoba south to western Montana and North Dakota. Winters 

 from Texas, southern Louisiana, and southern Mississippi through eastern and 

 central Mexico to Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Michoacan. Casual in Florida, 

 Georgia, and South Carolina. 



Family BOMBYCILLIDAE. Waxwings. 



Genus BOMBYCILLA Vieillot. 



Bombycilla Vieillot, Oiseaux Amer. Sept., I, 1807 [1808], 88. Type, by 

 monotypy, Bomhycilla cedrorum Vieillot. 



Bombycaia garrula pallidiceps Reichenow\ Bohemian Waxwing. [618.] 



Bomhycilla garrula pallidiceps Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb., XVI, No. 12, 

 December, 1908, 191. (Shesly Fluss im nordlichen Britisch Columbien 

 = Shesly River, British Columbia.) 



Range. — ^Breeds from western Alaska to northern Mackenzie and northeast- 

 ern Manitoba south to southern British Columbia and southern Alberta. 

 Winters east to Nova Scotia and south irregularly to Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, California, and Arizona. 

 [Allied races occm- in northern Europe and Asia.] 



Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot. Cedar Waxwing. [619.] 



Bomhycilla cedrorum Vieillot, Oiseaux Amer. Sept., I, 1807 [1808], 88 (pi. 

 57). (Amerique depuis le Canada jusqu'au Mexique = eastern North 

 America.) 



Range. — Breeds from central British Columbia, central Alberta, central 

 Manitoba, northern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Cape Breton Island south 

 to northwestern California, northern New Mexico, Kansas, northern Ai-kansas, 



1 Turner, Contrib. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 180. 



2 Zander, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, Extraheft I, 64. 

 sRidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1883, 156. 



