250 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
RanceE.— Breeds in Upper and Lower Sonoran zones of California, 
west of the Sierra Nevada, from about latitude 40° south into northern 
Lower California; winters over most of its breeding range and east 
to Arizona and western New Mexico. 
GENUS SPINUS Kocu. 
Spinus Kocu, Syst. Baier. Zool., 1816, 233. Type, by tautonymy, Frin- 
gilla spinus LINN&US. 
[Spinus notatus (Du Bus). Black-headed Goldfinch. [532.] 
Carduelis notata Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg., XIV, Pt. 2, 1847, 106. 
(Mexico.) 
Rance.— Vera Cruz, Puebla, and City of Mexico to Guatemala 
and mountains of western Honduras; accidental in Kentucky.] 
Spinus pinus (WILSON). Pine Siskin. [533.] 
Fringilla pinus Witson, Amer. Orn., II, 1810, 133, pl. 17, fig. 1. (Near 
Philadelphia, Pa.) 
Rance.— North America. Breeds mainly in Canadian zone from 
central Alaska, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, and southern 
Ungava south through the higher mountains of western United States 
to San Pedro Martir, Lower California, and southern New Mexico, 
and to northern Minnesota, northern Michigan, New Brunswick, 
Nova Scotia, and in mountains to North Carolina, and casually in the 
lower Hudson Valley and Massachusetts; occurs in winter over most 
of the United States south to northern Mexico; casual in southern 
Lower California. 
GENUS PLECTROPHENAX STEJNEGER. 
Plectrophenax STEJNEGER, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 33.. Type, by 
orig. desig., Emberiza nivalis LINN US. 
Plectréphenax nivalis (LINN vs). 
Rance.— Northern half of Northern Hemisphere, breeding in 
Arctic and subarctic regions. 
