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month of August,”! and a few were observed in Guatemala, near the Pacific 
coast, by Salvin and Godman.? Further to the southward, in Central America, 
the bird is generally distributed and very plentiful in winter. 
Calamospiza melanocorys Srrsgy. 
LARK BUNTING. 
Calamospiza bicolor Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 304 (Cape St. 
Lucas). Coues and Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 11 (Pichi- 
linque Bay). Berprne, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 541 (Cape Region). 
Calamospiza melanocorys Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 305 
(Cape Region). 
Lark Buntings are abundant throughout most of Lower California during 
the autumn and spring migrations. In the Cape Region, however, Mr. Frazar 
found them only at San José del Cabo, where the first was seen on September 
27. During October they were exceedingly numerous, and were usually found 
in large flocks. None were observed after November 8, but as Mr. Bryant 
noted a flock on Santa Margarita Island as early as March 1, and as I have 
several specimens taken in January at Guaymas on the eastern shore of the 
Gulf of California (about latitude 28° north), it is not improbable that some 
remain in the Cape Region through the entire winter. 
This species occurs in California only during migration, and then chiefly 
in the southern counties and in no very great numbers. It breeds princi- 
pally east of the Rocky Mountains. It has not been recorded from western 
Mexico south of Guaymas, but in the interior of that country has been found 
as far south as Guanajuato. 
Piranga ludoviciana (WI11s.). 
LOUISIANA TANAGER. 
Pyranga ludoviciana Rripeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533, footnote (Cape 
St. Lucas). Bexprne, Jbid., VI. 1883, 347 (Victoria Mts.; La Paz). 
Piranga ludoviciana Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 805 (Cape St. 
Lucas; Victoria Mts.; La Paz). 
Mr. Xantus found the Louisiana Tanager at Cape St. Lucas between Sep- 
tember 27 and November 17. Mr. Belding gives it as rare at La Paz and also 
among the “ Victoria Mountains” (Bryant), presumably in late winter and 
early spring, althongh no dates are mentioned. Mr. Frazar notes it as not 
very uncommon at Miraflores in November, and at San José del Rancho in 
December. At the latter place, on July 29, he killed a female which “ was 
1 Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., II. 1874, 277. 
2 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1886, 417. 
