286 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



RANGE. 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). 



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Passe rina versicolor (BONAPARTE). 

 RANGE. 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.) 



RANGE. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas from mouth of the 

 Pecos southward to Guatemala; accidental in Michigan. 



6. Passerina versicolor pulchra RIDGWAY. Beautiful Bunting. [600a.] 



Passerina versicolor pulchra RIDGWAY, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 448. 

 (Miraflores, southern Lower California.) 



RANGE. Southern Arizona, northwestern Mexico, and southern Lower 

 California. 



Passerina ciris (LINNAEUS). Painted Bunting. [601.] 



Emberiza ciris LINNJEUS, 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 CABANIS. 



Sporophila CABANIS, Archiv fur Naturg., X, i, 1844, 291. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Spermophila luctuosa LAFRESNAYE (Sharpe, 1888). 



