312 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



Piranga rubra rubra (Linnaeus). Summer Tanager. [610.] 



Fringilla rubra Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. Based on The 

 Summer Red-Bird, Muscicapa rubra Catesby, Carolina, I, 56. (in 

 America = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Upper and Lower Austral zones from southeastern 

 Nebraska, southern Iowa, southeastern Wisconsin, central Indiana, central 

 Ohio, Maryland (formerly New Jersey), and Delaware south to northeastern 

 Mexico and southern Florida. Winters from central Mexico and Yucatan to 

 Ecuador, Peru, and Guiana; migrant in western Cuba. Casual in New 

 Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Maine, Massachusetts, and Penn- 

 sylvania, accidental in southern California, Lower California, and in the 

 Bahamas. 



Piranga rubra cooperi Ridgway. Cooper's Tanager. [610a.] 



Pyranga cooperi Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XXI] 1869, No. 

 2, April- July [July 30], 130. (Los Pinos, New Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from southeastern California, northeastern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, southern Nevada, central Arizona, and central New Mexico south to 

 central Nuevo Leon and northern Durango. Winters in Mexico south to 

 Colima and Morelos. Casual in Colorado. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE. Grosbeaks, Finches, Sparrows, 

 AND Buntings. 



Subfamily RICHMONDENINAE. Cardinals and Allies. 



Genus RICHMONDENA Mathews and Iredale. 



Richmondena Mathews and Iredale, Austral Avian Record, III, No. 6, 

 June 25, 1918, 145. Type, by orig. desig., Loxia cardinalis Linnaeus. 



Richmondena cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus). Eastern Cardinal. [593.] 



Loxia Cardinalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 172. Based 

 mainly on The Red-Bird, Coccothraustes ruber Catesby, Carolina, I, 38. 

 (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Austral zones east of the Great Plains from 

 southeastern South Dakota, southern Iowa, northern Indiana, northern Ohio, 

 southern Ontario (locally), southeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania, 

 and the southern Hudson Valley south to the northern parts of the Gulf states 

 (resident in Bermuda). Casual in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, 

 New Brunswick, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. This or a Mexican race 

 introduced in southern California (vicinity of Los Angeles). 



