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specimens of Junco montanus three days before. The specimen 

 is in the collection of The Chicago Academy of Sciences having 

 been donated by Mr. Dayton. It is the skin of a typical adult 

 male. 



Its range is given as follows in the A. O. U. Check-list: 

 "Plains of the Platte, upper Missouri, Yellowstone and Sas- 

 katchewan Rivers, west to the eastern slope of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, south in winter to Kansas, Colorado and Texas." 



Genus CARDINALIS Bonaparte, 1837. 



Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus). Cardinal. 



Loxia cardinalis Linn^us, S. N., ed. 10, 1758, 172. 



Cardinalis virginianus Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, III, 

 part. 



Pitylus cardinalis Atjdtjbon, Synop., 1839, 131. 



Cardinalis cardinalis Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Mus. Berol., 1854, 44. 



Popular synonyms : Cabdinal Geosbeak. Redbibd. Cardinal Red- 

 bird. Virginian Redbird. Virginia Nightingale. Crested 

 Redbibd. Corn-craker. 



In 1876, Mr. E. W. Nelson* reported the Cardinal to be "a 

 rare and irregular summer resident," and says that "occasionally 

 specimens remain until late in Autumn." I have heard of the 

 Cardinal being taken in our public parks, and have myself secured 

 one specimen which showed, however, unmistakable signs of 

 having been an escaped cage bird. Mr. J. Grafton Parker, Jr., 

 has a specimen of this species which was taken at Kouts, In- 

 diana, on December ii, 1893. Some years ago I found a nest 

 of the. Cardinal at River Forest, Illinois. Mr. O. M. Schantz 

 informs me that in the year 1904 there were two pairs nesting 

 at Riverside, Illinois, and that they arrived in that locality on 

 the seventeenth of April. 



The range of the Cardinal covers the United States east of 

 the Great Plains, and from Iowa, the Great Lakes and southern 

 New York southward. Casually it is found further north in 

 Ontario and the New England states. 



Genus ZAMELODIA Coues, 1880. 

 Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linnaeus). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



Loxia ludoviciana LlNN^us, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 306. 



Fringilla ludoviciana Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., II, 1828, 79, pi. 15, 



fig. 2. 

 Coccoiorus ludovicianus Audubon, Syn., 1839, 133. 



♦Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 110 



