286 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Transition and 

 Upper Sonoran zones from southern British Columbia, southern 

 Alberta, southeastern Saskatchewan, and western North Dakota 

 south to southern California and southwestern Texas; winters in 

 Mexico south to Cape San Lucas and the Valley of Mexico; acciden- 

 tal in Southern Mackenzie (Fort Providence). 



Passedna versicolor (Bonaparte). 

 Range. — Southern border of the United States and Mexico. 



a. Fagserina Teraicolor versicolor (Bonaparte). Varied Bunting. [600.] 



Spiza versicolor Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. See. Lend., 1837 (June, 1838), 

 120. (Near Temascaltepeo, Mexico.) 



Range. — Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas from mouth of the 

 Pecos southward to Guatemala; accidental in Michigan. 



b. Fatserina versicolor pulchra Ridgway. Beautiful Bunting. [600a.] 



Passerina versicolor pulchra Ridgway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 448. 

 (Miraflores, southern Lower California.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona, northwestern Mexico, and southern Lower 

 California. 



Passerina ciris (Linnjeus). Painted Bunting. [601.] 



Eniberiza dris LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. (Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico.) 



Range. — Southeastern North America. Breeds in Lower Austral 

 Zone from southern Kansas, central Arkansas, northern Mississippi, 

 and southeastern North Carolina south to southeastern New Mexico, 

 Texas, and the Gulf coast; casual in southern Arizona and southern 

 Illinois; winters in the Bahamas, Cuba, and from central Mexico and 

 Yucatan to Panama; occasional in winter in southern Louisiana and 

 central Florida. 



Genus SPOROPHILA Cabanis. 



Sporophila Cabakis, Archiv ftir Naturg., X, i, 1844, 291. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Spermophila luctuosa Lapresnaye (Sharpe, 1888). 



