290 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



(formerly New Jersey), and Delaware south to northeastern Mexico and 

 central Florida ; winters from central Mexico and Yucatan to Ecuador, Peru, 

 and Guiana; straggles north to New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, 

 Maine, and Ontario; migrant in western Cuba; accidental in the Bahamas. 



6. Piranga rubra cooperi RIDGWAY. Cooper's Tanager. [610a.] 



Pyranga cooperi RIDGWAY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, 130. (Los 

 Pinos, New Mexico.) 



RANGE. Southwestern North America. Breeds from southeastern Cali- 

 fornia, southern Nevada, central Arizona, and northeastern New Mexico to 

 central Nuevo Leon and northern Durango; winters in Mexico south to 

 Colima and Morelos; casual north to Colorado. 



FAMILY HIRUNDINIDJE. SWALLOWS. 



GENUS PROGNE BOIE. 



Progne BOIE, Isis, XIX, 1826, 971. Type, by monotypy, Hirundo pur- 

 purea LINNAEUS = H. subis LINN^US. 



Progne subis (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North and South America. 



a. Progne subis subis (LINN^US). Purple Martin. [611.] 



Hirundo subis LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 192. ("Hudson's 

 Bay.") 



RANGE. North and South America, except the Pacific coast region. 

 Breeds from west central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, 

 northwestern Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, west to Montana 

 and Idaho, and south to the Gulf coast, Florida, Vera Cruz, and Jalisco; 

 occurs in migration in Venezuela and Guiana and winters in Brazil; acci- 

 dental in Bermuda and the British Isles. 



6. Progne subis hesperia BREWSTER. Western Martin. [6 11 a.] 



Progne subis hesperia BREWSTER, Auk, VI, April, 1889, 92. (Separates 

 publ. Jan. 31.) (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Pacific Coast region. Breeds from British Columbia to Cape 

 San Lucas; winter home unknown; occurs in migration in Nicaragua. 



