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596. Habia melanocephala (Swains.). 



Black-headed Grosbeak. 



Guiraca melanocephala Swains. Philos. Mag. I. 1827, 438. 

 Habia melanocephala Stejn. Auk, I. Oct. 1884, 367. 



[B 381, C 194, R 245, C 290.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from middle Kansas to the 

 Pacific coast, north to British Columbia and Montana, and south in 

 Mexico to Oaxaca and the Cape region of Lower California. 



Genus G-XJIRACA Swainson. 



Guiraca Swains. Zool. Jour. III. Nov. 1827, 350. Type, Loxia 

 ccerulea Linn. 



597. Guiraca caerulea (Linn.). 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Loxia ccerulea Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 175. 

 Guiraca ccerulea Swains. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 438. 



[B382, C 19s, R246, C 291.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, from southern New Jersey, 

 southern Illinois and central Nebraska, south to Cuba and Mexico. 

 Casual northward to New England. 



597 «. Guiraca caerulea eurhyncha Coues. 



Western Blue Grosbeak. 



Guiraca ccerulea^ var. eurhyncha Coues, Am. Nat. VIII. Sept. 

 1874, 563- 

 [B 7^^2,part, C 195, /^r/, R 2^6^ part, C 291, /«r/.] 



Geog. Dist. — Southwestern United States, from South Dakota, 

 Colorado, southern Utah, southern Nevada and California to Lower 

 California and southern Mexico. 



Genus FASSERINA Vieillot. 



Passerina Vieill. Analyse, 18 16, 30. Type, by elimination, 

 Tanagra cyanea Linn. 



