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c. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsule Rioaway. San Lucas Pyrrhuloxia. 
[5946.] 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuaia peninsule Ripaway, Auk, IV, Oet., 1887, 347. 
(San José del Cabo, Lower California.) 
RANGE.— Cape Region of Lower California. 
GENUS ZAMELODIA Cougs. 
Zamelodia Cours, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, April, 1880, 98. Type, 
by subs. desig., Loxia ludoviciana Linnzzxus (Coues, 1897). 
Zamelédia ludoviciéna (LINN#US). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. [595.] 
Lozia ludoviciana Linnmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 306. (Louisiana.) 
Rance.— Eastern North America and northern South America. 
Breeds in lower Canadian and Transition zones from south central 
Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, central Ontario, southern Quebec, 
and Cape Breton Island south to central Kansas, central Missouri, 
central Ohio, central New Jersey, and in mountains to northern 
Georgia; winters from southern Mexico and Yucatan to Colombia, 
Venezuela, and Ecuador; casual in migration in Cuba, Jamaica, and 
the Bahamas; accidental in Arizona, Colorado, and California. 
Zamelodia melanocéphala (SwAINSON). Black-headed Grosbeak. [596.] 
Guiraca melanocephala Swatnson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, 1827, 438. 
(Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 
Ranart.— Western North America. Breeds in Transition and 
Upper Sonoran zones from southern British Columbia, southwestern 
Saskatchewan, and central North Dakota to the southern parts of the 
Mexican plateau (Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, and Michoacan), and from 
central Nebraska to the Pacific; winters in the southern part of its 
range from southern Lower California, Mazatlan, Valley of Mexico, 
and Orizaba to Chiapas. 
GENUS GUIRACA SWAINSON. 
Guiraca Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 438. Type, by 
subs. desig., Loria cerulea LINNmUs (Gray, 1840). 
