282 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus ORKOSPIZA Ridgway. 



Oreospiza Ridgwat, Manual N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 439, 605. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Fringilla chlorwa Atjdubon. 



Oreospiza chlonira (Audubon). Green-tailed Towhee. [592.1.] 



FringiUa cMorura Atjdubon, Om. Biog., V, 1839, 336. (Near Ross 

 Creek, about 20 miles southwest of Blackfoot, Idaho.) 



Range. — Western United States and northern Mexico. Breeds 

 in Transition Zone from central Oregon and south central Montana 

 to southern California, southeastern New Mexico, and western Texas; 

 winters from southern California and western Texas to Cape San 

 Lucas and Guanajuato, Mexico; accidental in Virginia. 



Genus CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 



Cardimilis Bonaparte, Geog. & Comp. List, April, 1838, 35. Type, 

 by tautonymy, Cardinalis virginianus Bonaparte = Loxia cardinalis 



Cardinalis cardinalis (Linn^us). 



Range. — United States east of the Great Plains, west to Arizona 

 and Lower California, and south to southern Mexico. 



a. Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus). Cardinal. [593.] 



Loxia cardinalis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 172. (Eastern 

 United States.) 



Range. — Carolinian and Austroriparian zones east of the Great Plains 

 from southeastern South Dakota, southern Iowa, northern Indiana, northern 

 Ohio, southern Ontario (locally), southeastern and southwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania, and southern Hudson Valley south to the Gulf States (eastern Texas to 

 northern Florida); casual in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Bruns- 

 wick, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; resident in Bermuda. 



h. Cardinalis cardinalis supSrbus Ridgway. Arizona Cardinal. [593a.] 

 Cardinalis cardinalis superbus Ridgway, Auk, II, Oct., 1885, 344. 

 (Fuller's Ranch, a few miles east of Camp Lowell, Arizona.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona and contiguous parts of Sonora. 



