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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



to Bolivia (Pillon) and central Peru; west, casually or occasionally to 

 eastern Colorado and Wyoming; accidental in Bermudas. 



Average measurements of eastern and western specimens are as follows: 



[_Tanagra] rubra {not oiFringillarubraljmns&uajllbS) LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat. , ed. 12, 

 i, 1766, 314 (based on Cardincdis canadensis Brisson, Orn. , iii, 48 pi. 2, fig. 5). — 

 BoDDAEKT, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 10 (ex PI. Enl., pi. 156, fig. 1).— Gmeun, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 889.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 420. 



Tanagra niftra Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 42, pi. 11, figs. 3, 4. — Bonapakte, 

 Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 53; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 105.— 

 Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 465. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 

 1832, 465.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 388, pi. 354, figs. 3, 4. 



Pyranga rubra Swainson and Richakdson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 273. — Jar- 

 dine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 192. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. 

 List, 1838, 35. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 136; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 

 226, pi. 209.— D'Okbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 78.— 

 GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 235. — Jaedine, Contr. Orn. 1850, 67 (Bermudas). — 

 WooDHOusE, Eep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 82 (Indian Terri- 

 tory and Texas). — ScLATEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 156 (Bogotd, Colom- 

 bia); 1856, 123 (monogr.); 1858, 73 (Rio Napo, e. Ecuador); Synop. Av. 

 Tanagr., 1856, 47j Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 80 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 

 Bogota); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi., 1886, 188 (Cozumel I., Yucatan; Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala; Irazii, Costa Rica; Calovevora, Veragua; Lion Hill, Panama 

 R. R. ; Bogota and Remedies, prov. Antioquia, Columbia; Sarayacu and Quito, 

 Ecuador; Pillon, Bolivia). — Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., vi, 1858, 270 

 (upper Missouri R.).— Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 300; Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 220.— Willis, Smithsonian Rep. for 1858 (1859), 283 

 (Nova Scotia). — Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 215 (Bermudas).— Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1861, 331 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.); ix, 1868, 99 (San Jos6, Costa 

 Rica).— GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 328 (Cuba); 1872, 421 (do.); 

 Eepert Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 238.— Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1862,197 

 (Jamaica).— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xv, 1863, 296 (Jamaica).— 

 ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 350 (Lion Hill, Panama 

 E. R.); 1879, 501 (Colombia), 601 (Bolivia).— (?) Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 479 (El 

 Paso, Texas, breeding; very doubtful!)— McIlwraith, Proc. Essex Inst, v, 

 1866, 86 (Hamilton, Ontario).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 550 (Vera Cruz).— Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 229 (San Jos6, Costa 

 Rica).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 187 (Calovevora, Veragua); 

 1872, 316 (Chontales, Nicaragua).— Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871,117 

 (Minnesota).— CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 107; 2d ed. 1882, no. 154; Birds 

 N.W., 1874, 82; Bird Col. Val., 1878, 350, footnote (synonymy).— Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 175 (e. Kansas) .—Baied, Bkewkb, and Ridgway, 



