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Colorado, western Minnesota to Manitoba and Assiniboia; 

 migrating south and southwest through Texas, New Mexico and 

 Arizona to plateau of Mexico, Lower California and coast of 

 southern Cahfornia. 



In his Journal of an Exploration of western Missouri in 1854, 

 Dr. P. R. Hoy lists the Lark Bunting, Dolichonyx hicolor, among 

 his 153 species of birds observed between April 16 and June 15. 

 Under date of May 30, 1854, he writes: "On the way I saw 

 the only prairie reed bird {Dolichonyx hicolor) I ever met. I 

 followed it in full chase, under a hot sun, at least two miles 

 before I shot it. Although greatly fatigued I was well satisfied 

 at my final success in obtaining the much coveted bird." This 

 was near the state line, while driving north from Sugar River 

 on the old military trail (Linn Co., Kan., and Bates Co., Mo.). 

 Audubon found it in Harrison Co., la., where Bell shot two 

 males May 13, 1843. It has also been taken in Nebraska within 

 fifty miles of Missouri at Beatrice and Lincoln, and is mentioned 

 as a common summer resident in the southeastern corner of 

 South Dakota by G. S. Agersborg (Auk vol. 2, p. 281). 



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Family Tanagridae. Tanagers. 



*608. PiRANGA ERYTHROMELAS Vicillot. Scarlet Tanager. 



Pyranga erythromelas. Tanagra rubra. Pyranga rubra. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America north to the Maritime 

 Provinces, northern Ontario, Manitoba, eastern Assiniboia; 

 west to eastern Kansas, Nebraska, rarely to Wyoming and Colo- 

 rado. Breeds from Virginia, Kentucky, southern Missouri 

 northward; in winter to the West Indies and through Mexico, 

 Central America and northern South America to Bolivia and 

 central Peru. 



In Missouri a fairly common summer resident in the woods 

 of the prairie and Ozark border region ; frequent in the valleys 

 of the Ozarks into northern Arkansas, but rare in the southeast 

 (Mr. B. T. Gault found it breeding in Heburn, Ark., in 1888 and 

 Mr. Philo W. Smith, Jr., writes that, it was fairly common in 

 the vicinity of Eureka Springs in the summer of 1906, where he 

 found the Summer Tanager strangely absent). The first reach 

 southeastern Missouri in the third week of April, central Missouri 

 in the fourth, and the northern border in the last days of the 

 month or early in May. Females come a few days after the 



