250 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds in Upper and Lower Sonoran zones of California, 

 west of the Sierra Nevada, from about latitude 40° south into northern 

 Lower California; winters over most of its breeding range and east 

 to Arizona and western New Mexico. 



Genus SPINUS Koch. 



Spinus Koch, Syst. Baier. Zool., 1816, 233. Type, by tautonymy, Frin- 

 gilla spinus LinnjBus. 



[Spinus notatus (Du Bus). Black-headed Goldfinch. [532.] 



Cardiielis notata DtJ Bus, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg., XIV, Pt. 2, 1847, 106. 

 (Mexico.) 



Range. — Vera Cruz, Puebla, and City of Mexico to Guatemala 

 and mountains of western Honduras; accidental in Kentucky.] 



Spinus pinus (Wilson). Pine Siskin. [533.] 



FringiUa pinus Wilson, Amer. Orn., II, 1810, 133, pi. 17, fig. 1. (Near 

 Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds mainly in Canadian zone from 

 central Alaska, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, and southern 

 Ungava south through the higher mountains of western United States 

 to San Pedro Martir, Lower California, and southern New Mexico, 

 and to northern Minnesota, northern Michigan, New Brunswick, 

 Nova Scotia, and in mountains to North Carolina, and casually in the 

 lower Hudson Valley and Massachusetts; occurs in winter over most 

 of the United States south to northern Mexico; casual in southern 

 Lower California. 



Genus PLECTROPHENAX Stejneger. 



Plectrophenax Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 33. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Emberiza nivalis Linnaeus. 



Plectrophenax nivalis (Linn^us). 



Range. — Northern half of Northern Hemisphere, breeding in 

 Arctic and subarctic regions. 



