282 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS OREOSPIZA RIDGWAY. 



Oreospiza RIDGWAY, Manual N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 439, 605. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Fringilla chlorura AUDUBON. 



Oreospiza chlorura (AUDUBON). Green-tailed Towhee. [592.1.] 



FringiOa chlorura AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 336. (Near Ross 

 Creek, about 20 miles southwest of Blackfoot, Idaho.) 



RANGE. Western United States and northern Mexico. Breeds 

 in Transition Zone from central Oregon and south central Montana 

 to southern California, southeastern New Mexico, and western Texas ; 

 winters from southern California and western Texas to Cape San 

 Lucas and Guanajuato, Mexico; accidental in Virginia. 



GENUS CARDINALIS BONAPARTE. 



Cardinalis BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, April, 1838, 35. Type, 

 by tautonymy, Cardinalis virginianus BONAPARTE = Loxia cardinalis 



LINNAEUS. 



Cardinalis cardinalis (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. United States east of the Great Plains, west to Arizona 

 and Lower California, and south to southern Mexico. 



a. Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (LINN.EUS). Cardinal. [593.] 



Loxia cardinalis LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 172. (Eastern 

 United States.) 



RANGE. Carolinian and Austroriparian zones east of the Great Plains 

 from southeastern South Dakota, southern Iowa, northern Indiana, northern 

 Ohio, southern Ontario (locally), southeastern and southwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania, and southern Hudson Valley south to the Gulf States (eastern Texas to 

 northern Florida); casual in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Bruns- 

 wick, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; resident in Bermuda. 



b. Cardinalis cardinalis supSrbus RIDGWAY. Arizona Cardinal. [593a.] 



Cardinalis cardinalis superbus RIDGWAY, Auk, II, Oct., 1885, 344. 

 (Fuller's Ranch, a few miles east of Camp Lowell, Arizona.) 



RANGE. Southern Arizona and contiguous parts of Sonora. . 



