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Genus SFIZA Bonaparte. 



Spiza BoNAP. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. IV. i. Aug. 1824, 45. 

 Type, Ember iza americana Gmel. 



604. Spiza americana (Gmel.). 



Dickcissel. 



Emberiza americana Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 872. 

 Spiza americana Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. March 27, 

 1880, 3. 



[B378, C 191, R 254, C 287.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States to the Rocky Mountains, 

 breeding from Texas north to Massachusetts, New York, southern 

 Ontario, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota ; south in winter 

 through Central America to northern South America ; southwest in 

 migrations to Arizona. Now rare or entirely absent east of the 

 Alleghanies. 



Genus CALAMOSFIZA Bonaparte. 



Calamospiza Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, 

 Fringilla bicolor Towns. = Calamospiza melanocorys Stejn. 



605. Calamospiza melanocorys Stejn. 



Lark Bunting. 



Calamospiza melanocorys Stejn. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 49. 

 [B 377, C 190, R 256, C 286.] 

 Geog. Dist. — From the Plains of middle Kansas north to Mani- 

 toba and Assiniboia, west to the Rocky Mountains, less commonly to 

 the Pacific in southern California, and south to Guanajuato and 

 Lower California. Accidental in Massachusetts, New York, and 

 South Carolina. 



Family TANAGRID^. Tanagers. 



Genus EUPHONIA Desmarest. 



Euphonia Desm. Hist. Nat. Tan^. 1805, pi, xix. Type, Pipra 

 musica Gmel.? 



