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Interior plains of North America east of the Rooky Mountains 

 breeding in the ^Mackenzie River Valley, from the Arctic coast south 

 at least to Great Slaye Lake and west to the upper Yukon (Fort 

 Yukon); south in winter as far as Indian Territory, Texas (Bonham, 

 Gainesyille, etc.), east, regularly, to prairies of Illinois and north- 

 western Indiana, casually to South Carolina (Chester County). 



Emberiza [Fledrojihanes) pkia Swaixsox, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 250 (Carl- 

 ton House, Hudson Bay Terr. ) 



Pledroplianes jncta fiwAii^so-N, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, pi. 49. 



Emberiza pida AvDVBOs, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 91, pi. 400. 



[Emberiza'] pida Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 116, no. 7729. 



Pledrophanes pidus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 37. — Audubon, Syn- 

 opsis, 1839, 99; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 52, pi. 153.— Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 434; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 327.— Sclater, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 121 (Great Slave Lake).— Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 6 (Rocky 

 Mts., lat. 49°); 1863, 72 (Hudson Bay, Mackenzie R., etc.).— Call and 

 Baxxister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 283 (Fort Yukon, Porcupine R., 

 Alaska; Mackenzie R. district). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 154; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 121; Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 578 (Souris 

 R., North Dakota, Oct. 1). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7. — Baird, Brewer, 

 and RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 518, pi. 24, figs. 4, 5.— Nelson, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 42 (Calumet Lake, n. e. Illinois, Mar. ; habits).— 

 Ragsdale, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 92 (Gainesville, Texas, Nov. 23 to 

 Dee.22).— LooMis, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi., 1881, 115 (Chester, South Caro- 

 lina, 1 spec. Dec. 1).— Maynard, Birds, E. N. Am., 1881, 519 (Illinois in 

 winter). — Seton, Auk, i, 1884, 23 (Manitoba). 



P.[ledrop)hanes] pidus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 379. — Nelsox, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 viii, 1876, 106 (n. e. Illinois, common migrant). 



Pl.[edrophanes'] jndus Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 463. 



\_Pledrophcmes] pidus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 134. 



C'.[entrophanes'] pidus Cabahis, Mus. Hein., i, Mar., 1851, 127, footnote. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 358. 



Centrophanes pidus Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 97; Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 221.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 188.— 

 LooMis, Auk, ii, 1885, 190 (Chester, South Carolina). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 



1885, 280 (s. e. South Dakota). 



CaZcor/ws j;/ciHs Stejxeger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 1882, 33. — Ameri- 

 CAX Orxithologists' Uxiox, Check List, 1886, no. 537. — Setox, Auk, iii, 



1886, 323 (Big Plain and Winnipeg, Manitoba, spring and fall). — Nelsox, 

 Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 186 (Fort Yukon).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 584 (Repulse Bay, Fort Anderson, Fort Simpson, Slave 

 Lake, and Rendezvous Lake, Arctic America; Riverside, Illinois). — Cooke, 

 BirdMigr. Miss. Val., 1888, 185 (Bonham, Texas, Nov. 10; Caddo, Indian 

 Territory, Nov. 17 to Feb. 26; Fayetteville, Arkansas, Feb. 28).— Poling, Auk, 

 vii, 1890, 240 (w. Illinois, spring and fall; habits).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 591 (Manitoba, spring and fall; habits).— Macfarlane, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891,441 (e. of Fort Anderson and Lower Ander- 

 son R., breeding; descr. nest).— Loomis, Auk, viii, 1891, 167 (Chester, South 

 Carolina, Feb. 9); x, 1893, 152 (plumage of female).— Nehrlixg, Our Native 

 Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 79.— Butler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 932 (Lake Co., com- 

 mon during migration) . 



C. [alcarius] pidus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 405. 



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