290 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus CALAMOSFIZA Bonaparte. 



Calainospisa BoxAP. Geog. >k Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, Frin^illa 

 bicolor Towns. := Calamospiza fuelanocorys Stejn. 



G05. Calamospiza melanocorys Siejn. 



Lark Bunting. 



Calamospiza melanocorys Stejn. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 49. 



[B 377, C 190, R 256, C 286.] 



Hab. From the Plains of Dakota and Middle Kansas west to the 

 Rocky Mountains, less commonly thence to the Pacific, and south 

 to Northern Mexico and Lower Caliiomia. Accidental in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Family TANAGRID-^S. Tanagers. 



Genus EUPHONIA Desmarest. 



Euphonia Desm. Hist. Nat. Tang. 1805, — . Type, Pipra mtisica 

 Gmel. ? 



606. Euphonia elegantissima (Bonap.). 



Blue-headed Euphonia. 



Pipra elegantissima Bonap. P. Z. S. 1837, 112. 

 Euphonia elegatitissima Gray, Gen. B. App. 1849, ^7' 



[B224, C— , R 160, C— .] 



Hab. Eastern Mexico, and south to Veragua. Texas (Giraud). 



Genus FIRANG-A Vietllot. 



Piranga Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I. 1807, p. iv. T)'pe, Muscicapa 

 rubra Linn. 



607. Firanga ludoviciana (Wn.s.). 



Louisiana Tanager. 



Tanagra ludoviciana WiLS. Am. Orn. III. 181 1, 27, pi. 20, fig. i. 

 Pyranga ludoviciana Richardson, Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. V. 



1837, ^11- 



Jy/f^ [lol'j] 



