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[606.] Euphonia elegantissima (BONAP.). 



Blue-headed Euphonia. 



Pipra elegantissima BONAP. P. Z. S. 1837 (June, 1838), 112. 

 Euphonia elegantissima GRAY, Gen. B. App. 1849, 17. 



[B 224, C , R 160, C .] 



GEOG. DIST. Eastern Mexico, and south to Veragua. Texas 

 (GIRAUD). 



GENUS FIRANGA VIEILLOT. 



Piranga VIEILL. Ois. Am. Sept. I. 1807, p. iv. Type, Muscicapa 

 rubra LINN. 1766 = Fringilla rubra LINN. 1758. 



607. Piranga ludoviciana (WILS.). 



Louisiana Tanager. 



Tanagra ludoviciana WILS. Am. Orn. III. 1811, 27, pi. 20, fig. i. 

 Pyranga ludovitiana RICHARDSON, Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. V. 

 1837, 175- 



[B 223, C no, R 162, C 158.] 



GEOG. DIST. Western United States, from the Great Plains to 

 the Pacific, north to South Dakota and British Columbia. In winter 

 south to Guatemala. Accidental hi New York and New England. 



[607.1.] Piranga rubriceps GRAY. 



Gray's Tanager. 

 Pyranga rubriceps GRAY, Gen. B. II. 1844, pi. 89. 



[B- C-, R-, C .] 



GEOG. DIST. Colombia. Accidental in California (Dos Pueblos, 

 Santa Barbara Co.) . 



608. Piranga erythromelas VIEILL. 



Scarlet Tanager. 



Pyranga erythromelas VIEILL. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXVIII. 

 1819, 293 (= Pyranga rubra AUCT, nee Fringilla rubra LINN.). 



