286 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
RancEe.— Western North America. Breeds in Transition and 
Upper Sonoran zones from southern British Columbia, southern 
Alberta, southeastern Saskatchewan, and western North Dakota 
south to southern California and southwestern Texas; winters in 
Mexico south to Cape San Lucas and the Valley of Mexico; acciden- 
tal in southern Mackenzie (Fort Providence). 
Passerina versicolor (BONAPARTE). 
RanGeE.— Southern border of the United States and Mexico. 
a. Passerina versicolor versicolor (BoNAPARTE). Varied Bunting. [600.] 
Spiza versicolor BONAPARTE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837 (June, 1838), 
120. (Near Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 
Ranee.— Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas from mouth of the 
Pecos southward to Guatemala; accidental in Michigan. 
b. Passerina versicolor pilchra Ringway. Beautiful Bunting. [600qa.] 
Passerina versicolor pulchra Ripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 448. 
(Miraflores, southern Lower California.) 
Ranee.— Southern Arizona, northwestern Mexico, and southern Lower 
California. 
Passerina ciris (LINN&®uS). Painted Bunting. [601.] 
Emberiza ciris LINNz&us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. (Vera Cruz, 
Mexico.) 
RaNGE.— Southeastern North America. Breeds in Lower Austral 
Zone from southern Kansas, central Arkansas, northern Mississippi, 
and southeastern North Carolina south to southeastern New Mexico, 
Texas, and the Gulf coast; casual in southern Arizona and southern 
Illinois; winters in the Bahamas, Cuba, and from central Mexico and 
Yucatan to Panama; occasional in winter in southern Louisiana and 
central Florida. 
GENUS SPOROPHILA CaBanlis. 
Sporophila Capanis, Archiv fiir Naturg., X, i, 1844, 291. Type, by 
subs. desig., Spermophila luctuosa LAFRESNAYE (Sharpe, 1888). 
