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a. Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis (Livnmzus). Snow Bunting. [534.] 
Emberiza nivalis Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 176. (Lapland.) 
Rance.— Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds in Arctic 
Zone from at least 83° north (ineluding Greenland) to northern parts of main- 
land from Alaska to Ungava; winters from Unalaska, southern Alberta, south- 
ern Keewatin, and southern Ungava south to northern United States and 
irregularly to northern California, Colorado, Kansas, southern Indiana, south- 
ern Ohio, and Florida; casual in Bermuda. 
b. Plectrophenax nivalis to6wnsendi Rincway. Pribilof Snow Bunting. [534a.] 
Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi Ripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 
403. (Otter Island, Bering Sea.) 
RanGeE.— Siberian coast of Bering Sea and Commander, Pribilof, Aleutian, 
and Shumagin Islands. 
Plectrophenax hyperboreus Ripcway. McKay’s Snow Bunting. [535.] 
Plectrophenax hyperboreus Ripaway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 
68. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 
Ranee.— Breeds on Hall and St. Matthew islands, Bering Sea; 
migrates in winter to the mainland of western Alaska (St. Michael, 
Kuskokwim River, and Nushagak). 
GENUS CALCARIUS BecusrTEIN. 
Calcarius BEcHSTEIN, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschi., I, 1802, 130. Type, by 
monotypy, Fringilla lapponica LINN mus. 
Calcarius lapponicus (LINN us). 
Rance.— Greater part of Northern Hemisphere, breeding in Arctic 
regions. 
a. Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus (Linnmus). Lapland Longspur. [536.] 
Fréngilla lapponica Linn mus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10,1, 1758, 180. (Lapland.) 
Ranee.— Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from about 
latitude 73° on Arctic islands and west Greenland, and from latitude 75° in 
east Greenland south to limit of trees in Mackenzie (at least as far west as 
longitude 120°), central Keewatin, and northern Ungava; winters from south- 
ern Quebec and northern central United States irregularly south to the 
Middle States and Texas, rarely to Kentucky and South Carolina. 
