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538. Calcarius ornatus (Towns.). 



Chestnut-collared Longspur. 



Plectrophanes ornatus Towns. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII. 



1837, 189. 

 Calcarius or?zatus Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 1882, 



[B 328, 329, C 155, R 189, C 222.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan 

 Plains south through Texas to Orizaba. Breeds from eastern Mani- 

 toba, western Minnesota and eastern Nebraska westward and north- 

 westward into Montana and Assiniboia. Rare west of the Rocky 

 Mountains. Accidental in Massachusetts. 



Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. 



Rhynchophanes Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 432 (in text). Type, 

 Plectrophanes mccownii Lawr. 



539. Rhynchophanes mccownii (Lawr.). 



McCown's Longspur. 



Plectrophanes mccownii Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. V. 185 1, 122. 

 Rhynchophanes maccownii Ridgw. Field & Forest, II. May, 1877, 

 197. 



[B330, C 156, R 190, C 223.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Interior of North America, from the Sackatchewan 

 Plains south to Texas and northern Mexico ; breeds from about the 

 northern border of western Kansas northward throughout Nebraska, 

 western North and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana to the 

 Plains of the Saskatchewan. 



Genus POOC-ffiTES Baird. 



Pooccetes Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. Type, Fringilla graminea 

 Gmel. 



540. Poocaetes gramineus (Gmel.). 



Vesper Sparrow. 



Fringilla graminea Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 992. 

 Pooccetes gramineus Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. 



