252 CHECK-LIST OF NOETH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



6. CalcariUB lapponicus alascSnsis Ridgway. Alaska Longspur. [536a.] 



Calcarius lapponicus alascensis Ridgway, Auk, XV, Oct., 1898, 320. (St. 

 Paul Island, Pribilof Islands.) 



Range.— Western North America. Breeds in northern Alaska, including 

 the Pribilof, Aleutian, and Shumagin islands, and east to mouth of Mackenzie 

 River; winters south to eastern Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, and western Kan- 

 sas; in migration east to Fort Resolution; accidental in California. 



Calcarius pictus (Swainson). Smith's Longspur. [537.] 



Emberiza (Plectrophanes) pida Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 

 (1832), 250, pi. 49. (Carlton House, Saskatchewan.) 



Range. — Interior of North America. Breeds in Arctic Zone on 

 the barren grounds from Fort Anderson, Mackenzie, east to Hudson 

 Bay (Fort Churchill); has been taken west to Fort Yukon; winters 

 from Kansas to central Texas; east in migration to the prairies of 

 Illinois and southwestern Indiana; casual in South Carolina. 



Calcarius omitus (J. K. Townsend). Chestnut-collared Longspur. 

 [538.] 



Plectrophanes ornata Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, Pt. 

 ii, 1837, 189. (Prairies of Platte River, probably near forks of the 

 Platte, in western Nebraska.) 



Range. — Great Plains region. Breeds in Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones from Montana, southeastern Alberta, southern Saskatch- 

 ewan, and Manitoba south to east central Wyoming, central Kansas, 

 eastern Nebraska, and western Minnesota; winters from Colorado, 

 Nebraska, and Iowa to Arizona, Sonora, and the southern end of the 

 Mexican tableland; accidental in Maine, Massachusetts, New York 

 (Long Island), and Maryland. 



Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. 



Rhynchophanes Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 432. 

 Type, by monotypy, Plectrophanes mccownii Lawrence. 



Rhynchophanes mccowni (Lawrence). McCown's Longspur. [539.] 



Plectrophanes mccownii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., V, 1851, 122. 

 (High prairies of western Texas.) 



