264 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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



HAB. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas. Rare west of the Rocky Mountains. Accidental in 

 Massachusetts. 



GENUS RHYNCHOPHANES BAIRD. 



Rhynchophanes BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858,432 (in text). Type, Plectra- 

 phanes mccownii LAWR. 



539. Rhynchophanes mccownii (LAWR.). 



McCown's Longspur. 



Plectrophanes mccownii LAWR. Ann. Lye. N.Y.V. 1851, 122. 

 Rhynchophanes maccowni RIDGW. Field & Forest, II. May, 1877, 197. 



[B 330, C 156, R 190, C 223.] 



HAB. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas and Mexico ; breeds from about the northern border of 

 Western Kansas northward. 



GENUS FOOC-ZETES BAIRD. 



Poocates BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. Type, Fringilla graminea 

 GMEL. 



540. Foocaetes gramineus (GMEL.). 



Vesper Sparrow. 



Fringilla graminea GMEL. S- N. I. ii. 1788, 992. 

 Pocccstes gramineus BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. 



[B 337? A* r/ > c 161, R 197, C 232.] 



HAB. Eastern North America to the Plains, from Nova Scotia and 

 Ontario southward ; breeds from Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri 

 northward. 



540 #. Poocaetes grammens confinis BAIRD. 



Western Vesper Sparrow. 



Pooccetes gramineus var. confinis BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 448 (in 

 text). 



