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[606.] Euphonia elegantissima (Bonap.). 



Blue-headed Euphonia. 



Pipra elegantissima Bonap. P. Z. S. 1837 (June, 1838), 112. 

 Euphonia elegantissima Gray, Gen. B. App. 1849, 17. 



[B 224, C— , R 160, C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern Mexico, and south to Veragua. Texas 

 (Giraud). 



Genus PIRANG-A Vieillot. 



Piranga Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I. 1807, p. iv. Type, Muscicapa 

 rubra Linn. 1766 = Fringilla rubra Linn. 1758. 



607. Piranga ludoviciana (Wils.). 



Louisiana Tanager. 



Tanagra ludoviciana Wils. Am. Orn. IIL 181 1, 27, pi. 20, fig. i. 

 Pyranga ludoviciana Richardson, Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. V. 

 1837, 175- 



[B 223, C no, R 162, C 158.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from the Great Plains to 

 the Pacific, north to South Dakota and British Columbia. In winter 

 south to Guatemala. Accidental in New York and New England. 



[607.1.] Piranga nibriceps Gray. 



Gray's Tanager. 

 Pyranga rubriceps Gray, Gen. B. II. 1844, pi. 89. 



[B-, C-, R-, C-.] 



Geog. Dist. — Colombia. Accidental in California (Dos Pueblos, 

 Santa Barbara Co.). 



608. Piranga er3rthromelas Vieill. 



Scarlet Tanager. 



Pyranga erythromelas Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXVIII. 

 1 8 19, 293 (= Pyranga rubra Auct, Vi^o. Fringilla rubra Linn.). 



