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Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Canadian and 

 Transition zones from northeastern British Columbia, southwestern 

 Mackenzie, and southwestern South Dakota to high mountains of 

 southern California and western Texas; winters southward from cen- 

 tral Mexico through the highlands to Guatemala; straggles east dur- 

 ing migration to Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and 

 Louisiana; casual in Wisconsin. 



Piranga erythromelas Vieillot. Scarlet Tanager. [608.] 



Pyranga erythromelas Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVIII, 

 1819, 293. (Eastern North America.) 



Range. — Eastern North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds mainly in Transition and Upper Austral zones from south- 

 eastern Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, central Ontario, southern 

 Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to southern Kansas, 

 northern Arkansas, Tennessee, northern Georgia, and mountains of 

 Virginia and South Carolina; winters from Colombia to Bolivia and 

 Peru; migrates through Cuba, Jamaica, and Yucatan, and along the 

 east coast of Central America; casual in migration in Wyoming, Colo- 

 rado, the Bahamas, and Lesser Antilles. 



Piranga hepStica Swainson. Hepatic Tanager. [609.] 



Pyranga hepatica Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 438. 

 (Real del Monte, a few miles east of Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.) 



Range. — Northwestern Arizona, northeastern New Mexico, and 

 western Texas south to Guatemala. 



Piranga rubra (Linn^us). 



Range. — Southern United States and northern Mexico, south in 

 winter to northern South America. 



a. Piranga rubra rubra (Linn^us). Summer Tanager. [610.] 



FringUla rubra LinnjETTS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. (Virginia or 

 Carolina.) 



Range. — Southeastern United States and northern South America. Breeds 

 in Carolinian and Austroriparian zones from southeastern Nebraska, southern 

 Iowa, southeastern Wisconsin, central Indiana, southern Ohio, Maryland 



