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536. CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS (Linn.). Lapland Longspur. 



Fringilla lapponica. Emberiza lapponica. Plectrophanes lapponica. Cen- 

 trophanes lapponicus. 



Geog. Dist. Northern parts of northern hemisphere; breeding 

 in arctic and subarctic regions. In North America chiefly in 

 northeast, including Greenland, Melville peninsula and Cumber- 

 land Sound, Ungava etc. In winter south to Virginia, South 

 Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Indian Territory and Texas; 

 west to Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, where it comes together 

 with the western subspecies, C. I. alascensis. 



In Missouri a fairly common and pretty regular winter visitant, 

 appearing from the north in November and remaining until 

 March. Earliest, November 2, 1885, Mt. Carmel; latest, 

 March 31, 1889, Fayette. They move in flocks of different size, 

 sometimes very large, or in company with Horned Larks, and 

 frequent the wind-swept hillsides of the Ozark border as well as 

 the low marshes of the river bottoms or fields and meadows of 

 the prairie region. Mr. John D. Kastendieck, who took some 

 in Christian Co., considers them rare in his vicinity. Mr. Chas. 

 T. Eimbeck, who has a number of mounted specimens in his 

 collection, finds them common in some winters, rare in others at 

 New Haven, Mo. Mr. Tindall reports a flock of a dozen at Inde- 

 pendence, November 10, 1901. Flocks of this species along our 

 western border should be carefully examined, as they may con- 

 tain McCown's or Chestnut-collared Longspurs and Missouri 

 Skylarks. 



537. CALCARIUS PICTUS (Swains.). Smith's Longspur. 



Emberiza picta. Plectrophanes pictus. Centrophanes pictus. Emberiza 

 smithii. 



Geog. Dist. Interior plains of North America east of Rocky 

 Mountains; breeding in the Mackenzie River valley from the 

 Arctic coast south to the Great Slave Lake and west to the 

 upper Yukon; south in winter as far as Texas; east to north- 

 western Indiana and Illinois. 



In Missouri observed only in the Mississippi bottom of northern 

 Missouri, where probably of regular occurrence, but should be 

 looked for also on higher ground in all parts of the state, as it 

 was taken at Fayetteville in the Ozark region of northern Ar- 

 kansas, February 28, 1885, and at Lincoln, southeastern Nebraska 

 April 20, 1891. It is given as a common winter resident in Kan- 



