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RanGE.— Western North America. Breeds in Canadian and 
Transition zones from northeastern British Columbia, southwestern 
Mackenzie, and southwestern South Dakota to high mountains of 
southern California and western Texas; winters southward from cen- 
tral Mexico through the highlands to Guatemala; straggles east dur- 
ing migration to Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and 
Louisiana; casual in Wisconsin. 
Piranga erythrémelas VrertLot. Scarlet Tanager. ([608.] 
Pyranga erythromelas Vie1tuotT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XXVIII, 
1819, 293. (Eastern North America.) 
RanGeE.— Eastern North America and northern South America. 
Breeds mainly in Transition and Upper Austral zones from south- 
eastern Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, central Ontario, southern 
Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to southern Kansas, 
northern Arkansas, Tennessee, northern Georgia, and mountains of 
Virginia and South Carolina; winters from Colombia to Bolivia and 
Peru; migrates through Cuba, Jamaica, and Yucatan, and along the 
east coast of Central America; casual in migration in Wyoming, Colo- 
rado, the Bahamas, and Lesser Antilles. 
Piranga hepatica Swainson. Hepatic Tanager. [609.] 
Pyranga hepatica Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 438. 
(Real del Monte, a few miles east of Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.) 
Rance.— Northwestern Arizona, northeastern New Mexico, and 
western Texas south to Guatemala. 
Piranga rabra (LINNUs). 
RANGE.— Southern United States and northern Mexico, south in 
winter to northern South America. 
a. Piranga rubra rubra (LinNmus). Summer Tanager. [610.] 
Fringilla rubra Linnmvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. (Virginia or 
Carolina.) 
RanceE.— Southeastern United States and northern South America. Breeds 
in Carolinian and Austroriparian zones from southeastern Nebraska, southern 
Iowa, southeastern Wisconsin, central Indiana, southern Ohio, Maryland 
