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western North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota, southern Michigan, 

 and southern Ontario south to southern Texas and southern Miss- 

 issippi ; formerly bred on the Atlantic coast plain from Massachusetts 

 (casually wandering to Maine) to South Carolina, but now extremely 

 rare east of the Alleghenies ; winters in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, 

 and Trinidad, migrating through Mexico and Central America; acci- 

 dental in Lower California, Arizona, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and 

 Jamaica. 



Genus CALAMOSPIZA Bonaparte. 



Calamospiza Bonapabte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 30. Type, by 

 monotypy, Fringilla hicolor J. K. Townsend = Calamospiza melano- 

 corys Stejnbger. 



Calamospiza melandcorys Stejneger. Lark Bunting. [605.] 



Calamospiza melanocorys Stejnegeb, Auk, II, Jan., 1885, 49. (Plains 

 of the Platte River.) 



Range. — Plains of central North America. Breeds in Transition 

 and Upper Sonoran zones from southern Alberta, southern Saskatch- 

 ewan, and southwestern Manitoba south to northwestern New Mexico 

 and northwestern Texas, and east to eastern Nebraska and west 

 central Minnesota; winters southward from southern Texas and 

 southern Arizona, on the Mexican tableland as far as Sonora, Guana- 

 juato, Zacatecas, and in southern Lower California; occasional in 

 migration west of the Rocky Mountains to California and east to 

 western Iowa and southeastern Minnesota; accidental in Massachu- 

 setts, New York, and South Carolina. 



Family TANGARID.S:. Tanagers. 



Genus PIRANGA Vieillot. 



Piranga Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, iv. Type, by monotypy, 

 Muscicapa rubra Linn/eus, 1766 = Fringilla- rubra Linn.btis, 1758. 



Piringa ludoviciana (Wilson). Western Tanager. [607.] 



Tanagra Ivdoviciana Wilson, Amer. Orn., Ill, 1811, 27, pi. 20, fig. 1. 

 (Near mouth of Lolo Creek Fork of Clearwater River, western Idaho.) 



