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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



to Bolivia (Pillon) and central Peru; west, casually or occasionall}' to 

 eastern Colorado and Wyoming; accidental in Bermudas. 



Average measurements of eastern and western specimens are as follows: 



{^Tariagra'] rubra (not of Fringillaruhra Linnseus, 1758) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 

 i, 176(5, 314 (based on Cardmalis canadensis Brisson, Orn., iii, 48 pi. 2, fig. 5). — 

 BoDD.\ERT, Tabl. PL EnL, 1783, 10 (ex PI. Enl., pi. 156, fig. 1).— Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 889.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 420. 



Tanagra rutra. Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 42, pi. 11, figs. 3, 4. — Bonaparte, 

 Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 53; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 105.— 

 Lesson, Trait6 d'Orn., 1831, 465.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 

 1832, 465.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 388, pi. 354, figs. 3, 4. 



Pyranga rubra Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 273. — Jar- 

 dine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 192. — Bonwparte, Geog. and Comp. 

 List, 1838, 35.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 136; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 

 226, pi. 209.— D'Orbignv, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 78.— 

 GossE, Birds.Tamaica, 1847, 235. — Jardine, Contr. Orn. 1850, 67 (Bermudas). — 

 Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 82 (Indian Terri- 

 tory and Texas). — Scl.\ter, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 156 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia); 1856, 123 (monogr. ); 1858, 73 (Rio Napo, e. Ecuador); Synop. Av. 

 Tanagr., 1856, 47j Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 80 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 

 Bogota) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi., 1886, 188 (Cozumel L, Yucatan; Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala; Irazii, Costa Rica; Calovevora, Veragua; Lion Hill, Panama 

 R. R. ; Bogota and Remedios, prov. Antioquia, Columbia; Sarayacuand Quito, 

 Ecuador; Pillon, Bolivia). — Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., vi, 1858, 270 

 (upper Missouri R.).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 300; Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 220.— Willis, Smithsonian Rep. for 1858 (1859), 283 

 (Nova Scotia). — Martens, Journ. fiirOrn., 1859, 215 (Bermudas). — Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba).— L.\ whence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1861, 331 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.); ix, 1868, 99 (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica).— GuNDL.\CH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 328 (Cuba); 1872, 421 (do.); 

 Repert Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 238.— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 197 

 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xv, 1863, 296 (Jamaica).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 350 (Lion Hill, Panama 

 R. R.); 1879, 501 (Colombia), 601 (Bolivia).— (?) Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 479 (El 

 Paso, Texas, breeding; very doubtful!) — McIlwraith, Proc. Essex Inst, v, 

 1866, 86 (Hamilton, Ontario).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 550 (Vera Cruz). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 229 (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 187 (Calovevora, Veragua); 

 1872, 316 (Chontales, Nicaragua).— Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871,117 

 (Minnesota).— CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 107; 2d ed. 1882, no. 154; Birds 

 N.W., 1874, 82; Bird Col. Val., 1878, 350, footnote (synonymy ).— Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 175 (e. Kansas) . — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgw.w, 



