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c. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata pemnsulse Ridgway. San Lucas Pyrrhuloiia. 



[5946.] 

 Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsidcB Ridgway, Auk, IV, Oct., 1887, 347. 

 (San Jos6 del Cabo, Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape Region of Lower California. 



Genus ZAMELODIA Coues. 



Zamelodia Coues, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, April, 1880, 98. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Loxia Ivdoviciana Linn.eus (Coues, 1897). 



Zamelodia ludoviciSna (Linn^us). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. [595.] 

 Loxia ludoviciana Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 306. (Louisiana.) 



Range. — Eastern North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds in lower Canadian and Transition zones from south central 

 Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, central Ontario, southern Quebec, 

 and Cape Breton Island south to central Kansas, central Missouri, 

 central Ohio, central New Jersey, and in mountains to northern 

 Georgia; winters from southern Mexico and Yucatan to Colombia, 

 Venezuela, and Ecuador; casual in migration in Cuba, Jamaica, and 

 the Bahamas; accidental in Arizona, Colorado, and California. 



Zamelodia melanocephala (Swainson). Black-beaded Grosbeak. [596.] 



Guiraca melanocephala Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, 1827, 438. 

 (Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Transition and 

 Upper Sonoran zones from southern British Columbia, southwestern 

 Saskatchewan, and central North Dakota to the southern parts of the 

 Mexican plateau (Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, and Michoacan), and from 

 central Nebraska to the Pacific; winters in the southern part of its 

 range from southern Lower California, Mazatlan, Valley of Mexico, 

 and Orizaba to Chiapas. 



Genus GUIRACA Swainson. 



Guiraca Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 438. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Loxia ccendea Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



