222 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
538. Calearius ornatus (Towns.). 
Chestnut-collared Longspur. 
Pilectrophanes ornatus Towns. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII. 
TOF 7, LOO 
Calcarius ornatus STEJN. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 1882, 
Vvas* 
i [Bi328,'320) Cres, Rirse, Cieee.) 
Groc. Dist.— Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan 
Plains south through Texas to Orizaba. Breeds from eastern Mani- 
toba, western Minnesota and eastern Nebraska westward and north- 
westward into Montana and Assiniboia. Rare west of the Rocky 
Mountains. Accidental in Massachusetts. 
GrENuS RH YNCHOPHANES Barrp. 
Rhynchophanes Batrv, B. N. Am. 1858, 432 (in text). Type, 
Plectrophanes mecownit LAWR. 
539. Rhynchophanes mccownii (Lawr.). 
MecCown’s Longspur. 
Plectrophanes mcecowni LAawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. V. 1851, 122. 
Rhynchophanes maccownit Ripew. Field & Forest, II. May, 1877, 
197. 
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Groc. Dist.— Interior of North America, from the Sackatchewan 
Plains south to Texas and northern Mexico; breeds from about the 
northern border of western Kansas northward throughout Nebraska, 
western North and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana to the 
Plains of the Saskatchewan. 
Genus POOCASTES Barrp. 
Poocetes BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. Type, Fringila graminea 
GMEL. 
540. Poocztes gramineus (GMEL.). 
Vesper Sparrow. 
Fringilla graminea GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 992. 
Poocetes gramineus Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. 
