2oa2 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
b. Calcarius lapponicus alascénsis Ripcway. Alaska Longspur. [536a.] 
Calcarius lapponicus alascensis Ripaway, Auk, XV, Oct., 1898, 320. (St. 
Paul Island, Pribilof Islands.) 
Raneey.— Western North America. Breeds in northern Alaska, including 
the Pribilof, Aleutian, and Shumagin islands, and east to mouth of Mackenzie 
River; winters south to eastern Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, and western Kan- 
sas; in migration east to Fort Resolution; accidental in California. 
Calcarius pictus (SWAINSON). Smith’s Longspur. [537.] 
Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta Swartnson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 
(1832), 250, pl. 49. (Carlton House, Saskatchewan.) 
RanGE.— Interior of North America. Breeds in Arctic Zone on 
the barren grounds from Fort Anderson, Mackenzie, east to Hudson 
Bay (Fort Churchill); has been taken west to Fort Yukon; winters 
from Kansas to central Texas; east in migration to the prairies of 
Illinois and southwestern Indiana; casual in South Carolina. 
Calcarius ornatus (J. K. TowNnsenpD). Chestnut-collared Longspur. 
[538.] 
Plectrophanes ornata TOWNSEND, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, Pt. 
ii, 1837, 189. (Prairies of Platte River, probably near forks of the 
Platte, in western Nebraska.) 
RanGcE.— Great Plains region. Breeds in Transition and Upper 
Austral zones from Montana, southeastern Alberta, southern Saskatch- 
ewan, and Manitoba south to east central Wyoming, central Kansas, 
eastern Nebraska, and western Minnesota; winters from Colorado, 
Nebraska, and Iowa to Arizona, Sonora, and the southern end of the 
Mexican tableland; accidental in Maine, Massachusetts, New York 
(Long Island), and Maryland. 
GENUS RHYNCHOPHANES Bairp. 
Rhynchophanes Bairp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., TX, 1858, 432. 
Type, by monotypy, Plectrophanes mccownit LAWRENCE. 
Rhynchéphanes mecéwni (LAWRENCE). McCown’s Longspur. [539.] 
Plectrophanes mccownii LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., V, 1851, 122. 
(High prairies of western Texas.) 
