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Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata (Bonaparte). Arizona F*yiThuloxia. [594.] 



Cardinalis sinuatus Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., V, 1837, No. 

 59 [June 14, 1838], 111. (Western parts of Mexico.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone from soutliern Arizona, southern New 

 Mexico, and central western Texas south through western Mexico to Zaca- 

 tecas and Sinaloa. 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Ridgway. San Lucas Pyrrhuloxia. [594&.] 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata -peninsuls Ridgway, Auk, IV, No. 4, Oct., 1887, 347. 

 (San Jose del Cabo, Lower California.) 



Range. — ^Arid Tropical Zone of the Cape district of Lower California north 

 locally to lat. 26° 40'. 



Genus HEDYMELES Cabanis. 



Hedymeles Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, sig. 19, for June [Oct.?], 1851, 152. 

 Type, by subs, desig., Loxia ludoviciana Linnaeus (Gray, 1855). 



Hedymeles ludovicianus (Linnaeus). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. [595.] 



Loxia ludoviciana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 306. Based on 

 Le Grosbec de la Louisiane, Coccothraustes Ludoviciana Brisson, Orn., 

 Ill, 247. (in Ludovicia = Louisiana.) 



Range. — Breeds in lower Canadian and Transition zones from south- 

 central Mackenzie, central Manitoba, central Ontario, southern Quebec, 

 and Cape Breton Island south to central Kansas, southern Missouri, central 

 Ohio, central New Jersey, and in the mountains to northern Georgia. Winters 

 from southern Mexico and Yucatan to Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. 

 Casual in migration in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Bahamas; accidental in 

 Arizona, Colorado, and California. 



Hedymeles melanocephalus melanocephalus (Swainson). Black-headed 

 Grosbeak. [596.] 



Guiraca melanocephala Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., I, No. 6, June, 1827, 

 438. (Tableland of Mexico = Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from Vancouver Island and the mainland of southern 

 British Columbia south through California and northern Lower California; also 

 in western Mexico to Oaxaca and Vera Cruz. Winters in southern Lower Cali- 

 fornia and in Mexico to Chiapas. 



Hedymeles melanocephalus papago Oberholser. Rocky Moimtain Gros- 

 beak. [596a.] 



Hedymeles melanocephalus papago Oberholser, Auk, XXXVI, No. 3, 

 July [June 28], 1919, 412. (Santa Cruz River, west of Patagone 

 [= Patagonia] Mountains, near the Mexican boundary line, southern 

 Arizona.) 



