254 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus SPIZA Bonaparte. 
Spiza Bonar. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. IV. i. Aug. 1824, 45. 
Type, Emberiza americana GMEL. 
604. Spiza americana (GMEL.). 
Dickcissel. 
Emberiza americana GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 872. 
Spiza americana Ripew. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. March 27, 
1880, 3. 
[B 378, C199, R254, C 287-] 
Groc. Dist.— Eastern United States to the Rocky Mountains, 
breeding from Texas north to Massachusetts, New York, southern 
Ontario, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota; south in winter 
through Central America to northern South America; southwest in 
migrations to Arizona. Now rare or entirely absent east of the 
Alleghanies. 
Genus CALAMOSPIZA Bonaparte. 
Calamospiza Bonar. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, 
Fringilla bicolor Towns. = Calamospiza melanocorys STEJN. 
605. Calamospiza melanocorys STEJN. 
Lark Bunting. 
Calamospiza melanocorys StEJN. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 49. 
[Big77,(C 190,/R 256,,C.286.| 
Groc. Dist.— From the Plains of middle Kansas north to Mani- 
toba and Assiniboia, west to the Rocky Mountains, less commonly to 
the Pacific in southern California, and south to Guanajuato and 
Lower California. Accidental in Massachusetts, New York, and 
South Carolina. 
Famity TANAGRIDZA. Tanacers. 
GENUS HUPHONTIA DEsMAREST. 
Euphonia DesM. Hist. Nat. Tang. 1805, pl. xix. Type, Pipra 
musica GMEL.? 
