220 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
[B 310, C—, R 184, C 218.] 
Groc. Dist.— Mountains of Guatemala and southern Mexico, 
north at least to central Vera Cruz; accidental in Kentucky 
(AUDUBON). 
533. Spinus pinus (WILs.). 
Pine Siskin. 
fringilla pinus Wits. Am. Orn. II. 1810, 133, pl. 17, fig. 1. 
Spinus pinus STEJN. Auk, I. Oct. 1884, 362. 
[Bigr7 C148) Ross CO 272.) 
Geoc. Dist.— North America generally, breeding in the British 
Provinces, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and high mountains of 
Arizona, south to Lower California and the mountains of Mexico to 
Orizaba. Also breeds sparingly in northeastern United States. 
Genus PLECTROPHENAX SreEjNEGER. 
Plectrophenax STEN. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 1882, 33. 
Type, Emberiza nivalis LINN. 
534. Plectrophenax nivalis (Linvn.). 
Snowflake. 
LEmberiza nivalis LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 176. 
Plectrophenax nivalis STEJN. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. V. 1882, 33. 
[Bg25, Corse, (Re t86,.C e194] 
Geroc. Dist.— Northern parts of the northern hemisphere, breed- 
ing in the arctic regions; in North America south in winter into the 
northern United States, irregularly to Georgia, southern Illinois, 
Kansas, and Oregon. 
534 a. Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi Ripncw. 
Pribilof Snowflake. 
Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi Ripcw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 
403. 
