288 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
western North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota, southern Michigan, 
and southern Ontario south to southern Texas and southern Miss- 
issipp1; formerly bred on the Atlantic coast plain from Massachusetts 
(casually wandering to Maine) to South Carolina, but now extremely 
rare east of the Alleghenies; winters in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, 
and Trinidad, migrating through Mexico and Central America; acci- 
dental in Lower California, Arizona, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and 
Jamaica. 
GeNus CALAMOSPIZA BoNAPARTE. 
Calamospiza Bonapartn, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, by 
monotypy, [ringilla bicolor J. K. Townsend = Calamospiza melano- 
corys STEJNEGER. 
Calamospiza melanécorys STEJNEGER. Lark Bunting. [605.] 
Calamospiza melanocorys STEJNEGER, Auk, II, Jan., 1885, 49. (Plains 
of the Platte River.) 
RancGe.— Plains of central North America. Breeds in Transition 
and Upper Sonoran zones from southern Alberta, southern Saskatch- 
ewan, and southwestern Manitoba south to northwestern New Mexico 
and northwestern Texas, and east to eastern Nebraska and west 
central Minnesota; winters southward from southern Texas and 
southern Arizona, on the Mexican tableland as far as Sonora, Guana- 
juato, Zacatecas, and in southern Lower California; occasional in 
migration west of the Rocky Mountains to California and east to 
western Iowa and southeastern Minnesota; accidental in Massachu- 
setts, New York, and South Carolina. 
Famity TANGARIDA. TaNnacers. 
GENUS PIRANGA VIEILLOT. 
Piranga VieiuLot, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, iv. Type, by monotypy, 
Muscicapa rubra Linn=us, 1766 = Fringilla rubra Linnaeus, 1758. 
Piranga ludoviciéna (Witson). Western Tanager. [607.] 
Tanagra ludoviciana Witson, Amer. Orn., III, 1811, 27, pl. 20, fig. 1. 
(Near mouth of Lolo Creek Fork of Clearwater River, western Idaho.) 
