220 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 3 io, C , R 184, C 218.] 



GEOG. DIST. Mountains of Guatemala and southern Mexico, 

 north at least to central Vera Cruz; accidental in Kentucky 



(AUDUBON). 



533. Spinus pinus (WILS.). 



Pine Siskin. 



Fringilla pinus WILS. Am. Orn. II. 1810, 133, pi. 17, fig. i. 

 Spinus pinus STEJN. Auk, I. Oct. 1884, 362. 



[8317, C 148, R 185, C 212.] 



GEOG. DIST. North America generally, breeding in the British 

 Provinces, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and high mountains of 

 Arizona, south to Lower California and the mountains of Mexico to 

 Orizaba. Also breeds sparingly in northeastern United States. 



GENUS PLECTROFHENAX STEJNEGER. 



Plectrophenax STEJN. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 1882, 33. 

 Type, Emberiza nivalis LINN. 



534. Plectrophenax nivalis (LINN.). 



Snowflake. 



Emberiza nivalis LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 176. 

 Plectrophenax nivalis STEJN. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. V. 1882, 33. 



[B 3 2 5 , C 152, R 186, C 219.] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern parts of the northern hemisphere, breed- 

 ing in the arctic regions ; in North America south in winter into the 

 northern United States, irregularly to Georgia, southern Illinois, 

 Kansas, and Oregon. 



534 a. Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi RIDGW. 



Pribilof Snowflake. 



Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi RIDGW. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 

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