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Hedymeles ludoviciana CABANIS, Mus. Hein., I, June, 1851, 152. 

 Goniaphca ludoviciana GUNDLACH, Report Fisco-Nat. Cuba, I, 1866, 



286. 



Zamelodia ludoviciana COUES, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, 1880, 98. 

 Habia ludoviciana STEJNEGER, Auk, 1, Oct. 1884, 367. 

 Popular synonyms : RED-BREASTED GROSBEAK. POTATO-BUG BIRD. 

 The Rose-breasted Grosbeak is a common summer resident, 

 arriving the last of April, and departing early in October. 



The range of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak extends east of 

 Manitoba and the Great Plains, southward in winter to Cuba 

 and the northern portion of South America. It breeds from 

 about the latitude of Kansas and South Carolina northward. 



Genus CYANOSPIZA Baird, 1858. 



Cyanospiza cyanea (LinnaBus). Indigo Bunting . 



Tanagra cyanea LINNAEUS, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 315. 

 Fringilla cyanea WILSON, Amer. Orn., I, 1810, 100, pi. 6, fig. 5. 

 Passerina cyanea VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXV, 1817, 7. 

 Spiza cyanea JARDINE, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., Ill, 1832, 446. 

 Cyanospiza cyanea BAIRD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., IX, 1858, 505. 

 Popular synonyms : INDIGO BIRD. BLUE LINNET. GREEN BIRD OB 

 LINNET. 



The Indigo Bunting is a common summer resident, arriving 

 the last of April, and departing the last of September. 



The range of this species covers the eastern United States, 

 from Canada southward, in winter to Central America and Cuba, 

 westward to the eastern edge of the Great Plains. 



Genus SPIZA Bonaparte, 1824. 



Spiza americana (Gmelin). Dickcissel. 



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



Eu&piza americana' BONAPARTE, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32. 



Spiza americana RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nst. Mus., Ill, March 27, 

 1880, 3. 



Popular synonyms: BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. LITTLE MEADOW- 

 LARK. 



A common summer resident, arriving early in May and de- 

 parting about the latter part of August. 



The range of the Dickcissel includes the United States east 

 of the Rocky Mountains, from Massachusetts, Ontario and North 

 Dakota south to Texas. It winters in Central America and 

 northern South America and is rare east of the Alleghanies. 



