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CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B32S, 329, C 155, R 189, C 222.] 



Hab. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas. Rare west of the Rocky Mountains. Accidental in 

 Massachusetts. 



Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. 



Rhynchophanes Baird, B. N. Am. 1858,432 (in text). Type, Plectio- 

 phaiies mccoiunii Lawr. 



539. Rhynchophanes mccownii (Lawr.). 



McCown's Longspur. 



Plectropltancs mccownii hxwK. Ann. Lye. N. Y. V. 1851, 122. 

 Rhynchophanes maccowni Ridgw. Field & Forest, II. May, 1877, 197. 



[B 330, C 156, R 190, C 223.] 



Hab. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas and Mexico \ breeds from about the northern border of 

 Western Kansas northward. 



Genus FOOC^TES Baird. 



Poocatcs Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. Type, Fringilla graininea 

 Gmel. 



540. Foocaetes gramineus (Gmel.). 



Vesper Sparrow. 



Fringilla gramittea Gmel. S- N. I. ii. 1788, 992. 

 Pooccetes gramineus Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 447. 



[B 337^ A-^^' C 161, R 197, C 233.] 



Hab. Eastern North America to the Plains, from Nova Scotia and 

 Ontario southward ; bre^ids fron Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri 

 northward. 



640 a. Poocaetes gramineus con:'inis uaird. 



Western Vesper Sparrow. 



Pooccetes gramineus var. confinis Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 448 (in 

 text). 



