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western North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota, southern Michigan, 

 and southern Ontario south to southern Texas and southern Miss- 

 issippi ; 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 BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, by 

 monotypy, Fringilla bicolor J. K. TOWNSEND = Calamospiza melano- 

 corys STEJNEGER. 



Calamospiza melanocorys STEJNEGER. Lark Bunting. [605.] 



Calamospiza melanocorys STEJNEGER, Auk, II, Jan., 1885, 49. (Plains 

 of the Platte River.) 



RANGE. 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. 



FAMILY TANGARID-ffi. TANAGERS. 



GENUS PIRANGA VIEILLOT. 



Piranga VIEILLOT, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, iv. Type, by monotypy, 

 Muscicapa rubra LINNAEUS, 1766 = Fringilla rubra LINN^US. 1758. 



Piranga ludoviciana (WILSON). Western Tanager. [607.] 



Tanagra ludoviciana WILSON, Amer. On., Ill, 1811, 27, pi. 20, fig. 1. 

 (Near mouth of Lolo Creek Fork of Clearwater River, western Idaho.) 



