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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 erythromelas VIEILLOT. Scarlet Tanager. [608.] 



Pyranga erythromelas VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVIII, 

 1819, 293. (Eastern North America.) 



RANGE. 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.) 



RANGE. Northwestern Arizona, northeastern New Mexico, and 

 western Texas south to Guatemala. 



Piranga rubra (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Southern United States and northern Mexico, south in 

 winter to northern South America. 



a. Piranga nibra rubra (LINN^US). Summer Tanager. [610.] 



Fringilla rubra LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. (Virginia or 

 Carolina.) 



RANGE. 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 



