282 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
GENUS OREOSPIZA Ripeway. 
Oreospiza Ripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 439, 605. Type, 
by orig. desig., Fringilla chlorura AUDUBON. 
Oreospiza chlorara (AUDUBON). Green-tailed Towhee. [592.1.] 
Fringilla chlorura AupuBON, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 336. (Near Ross 
Creek, about 20 miles southwest of Blackfoot, Idaho.) 
RaneEe.— Western United States and northern Mexico. Breeds 
in Transition Zone from central Oregon and south central Montana 
to southern California, southeastern New Mexico, and western Texas; 
winters from southern California and western Texas to Cape San 
Lucas and Guanajuato, Mexico; accidental in Virginia. 
GENUS CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 
Cardinalis BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, April, 1838, 35. Type, 
by tautonymy, Cardinalis virginianus BONAPARTE = Lozia cardinalis 
LINN2XUS. 
Cardindlis cardinalis (LINNXUs). 
RancE.— United States east of the Great Plains, west to Arizona 
and Lower California, and south to southern Mexico. 
a. Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnzus). Cardinal. [593.] 
Lozia cardinalis Linnxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 172. (Eastern 
United States.) 
Ranae.— Carolinian and Austroriparian zones east of the Great Plains 
from southeastern South Dakota, southern Iowa, northern Indiana, northern 
Ohio, southern Ontario (locally), southeastern and southwestern Pennsyl- 
vania, and southern Hudson Valley south to the Gulf States (eastern Texas to 
northern Florida); casual in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Bruns- 
wick, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; resident in Bermuda. 
b. Cardinalis cardinalis supérbus Ripaway. Arizona Cardinal. [593a.] 
Cardinalis cardinalis swperbus Ripaway, Auk, IJ, Oct., 1885, 344. 
(Fuller’s Ranch, a few miles east of Camp Lowell, Arizona.) 
Rance.— Southern Arizona and contiguous parts of Sonora. 
