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States is thus limited to a small portion of our Western terri- 

 tory, in the Colorado Basin, and near the Mexican boundary 

 line. In the opposite direction, the record I have compiled 

 shows that the bird has been found as far south as Guatemala, 

 and in various Mexican localities, as Orizaba, Xalapa, Oaxaca, 

 and elsewhere. 



In the Boston Society's "Proceedings" for May 21, 1873, p. 

 108, Dr. Brewer describes two eggs from Captain Bendire's 

 collection, attributed to Pyranga hepatica. These are noted as 

 being of "an oblong oval shape, rounded and nearly equal at 

 either end", one measuring 1.02 by 0,67, the other 0.95 by 0.70; 

 the ground-color pale light green ; in one case sparingly marked 

 all over with distinct and conspicuous blotches of purplish- 

 brown, in the other instance covered with finer dottings of the 

 same color, so numerous as to obscure the green. So runs the 

 ostensible record; but in the Appendix to the "History of 

 North American Birds" (iii. 1874, 508), the resemblance of these 

 eggs, as well as of the nest, to those of P. cestiva is noted ; and, 

 as no skins of the parent were preserved, it is not improbable 

 that the specimens may have really appertained to P. cooperi, 

 and have been wrongly identified as those of P. hepatica. 



Crimson-headed Tanager 



Pyranga ludoviciana 



Tanagra ludoviciana, Wils. AO. iii. 1811, 27, pi. 20, f. 1. Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 

 54 (critical). Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1326, 105 (subg. Pyranga) .Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 

 471. Ornith. Comm. Journ. Phila. Acad. vii 1837, 193 (Columbia Hi ver). Attd. OB. 

 iv. 1838, 385 ; v. 1839, 90 ; pi. 354, figs. 1, 2, 400, f. 4. Towns. Journ. Phila. Acad. viii. 

 1839, 154. 



Pyranga ludoviciana, Rich. Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1836, 1837, 175. Bp. PZS. 

 1837, 116 (Guatemala). Bp. CGL. 1838, 35. Aud. Syn. 1839, 137. And. BA. iii. 1841, 

 231, pi. 210. Bp. CA. i. 1850, 241. Scl. PZS. 1856, 124 (synonymy, &c.) ; 1857, 213 

 (Orizaba) ; 1859, 377 (Oaxaca). Bd. BNA. 1858, 303. Xant. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 

 191. 8. & 8. Ibis, i. 1859, 15 (Guatemala). Heerm. PEER. x. 1859, 52. Coop. & SucTcL 

 NHWT. 1860, 182. Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, 161. Scl. PZS. 1862, 19 

 (Parada). Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. xviii. 1866, 71 (Fort Whipple) ; 1868, 83 Brown, 

 Ibis, 2d ser. iv. 1868, 420 (Vancover). Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 33. Sumich. Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. i. 1869, 550 (Vera Cruz). Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 145, fig. Allen, Bull. MCZ. 

 iii. 1872, 175. Goucs, Key, 1872, 112. Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 198. Merr. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 678, 712, 714. Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 17. Comstock, 

 Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 76. Coues, BNW. 1874, 83, 232. .B. B. & R. NAB. ii. 1874, 437, pi. 

 20, f. 3, 4. Tarr. <& Hensh. Eep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 13. Hensh. Eep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 43, 

 60, 78, 107. Nels. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 357 (California). Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 

 157. Hensh. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 235. 



Piranga ludoviciana, Gray, Handlist, ii. 1870, 60, n. 6839. 



Phoenicosoma ludovicianum, Gieb. Nomencl. Av. iii. 1876, 110. 



Pyranga erythropis, Vieill. N. D. d'H. N. 2d ed. xxviii. 1819, 291. F. Ency. Meth. ii 

 1823, 799. 



