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Interior plains of North America east of the Kocky Mountains 

 breeding in the Mackenzie Kiver Valley, from the Arctic coast south 

 at least to Great Slave Lake and west to the upper Yukon (Fort 

 Yukon) ; south in winter as far as Indian Territory, Texas (Bonham, 

 Gainesville, etc.), east, regularly, to prairies of Illinois and north- 

 western Indiana, casually to South Carolina (Chester Count}'). 



Emberim (Plectroplianes) picta Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 250 (Carl- 

 ton House, Hudson Bay Terr. ) 



Pledrophanes picta S^vAisson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, pi. 49. 



Emberiza picta AvvvBoyi, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 91, pi. 400. 



lEmberiza} picta Geay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 116, no. 7729. 



Plectrophanes pictus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838,37. — Audubon, Syn- 

 opsis, 1839, 99; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 52, pi. 153.— Baied, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 434; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 327.— Sclatbk, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 121 (Great Slave Lake).— Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 6 (Rocky 

 Mts., lat. 49°); 1863, 72 (Hudson Bay, Mackenzie R., etc.).— Call ^nd 

 Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 283 (Fort Yukon, Porcupine R., 

 Alaska; Mackenzie R. district). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 154; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 121; Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 578 (Souris 

 R., North Dakota, Oct. 1). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7. — Baied, Brewer, 

 and RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 518, pi. 24, figs. 4, 5.— Nelson, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 42 ( Calumet Lake, n. e. IlUnois, Mar. ; habits) .— 

 Ragsdale, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 92 (Gainesville, Texas, Nov. 23 to 

 Dec.22).— LooMis, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi., 1881, 115 (Chester, South Caro- 

 lina, 1 spec. Dec. 1). — Maynard, Birds, E. N. Am., 1881, 519 (Illinois in 

 winter) .— Seton, Auk, i, 1884, 23 (Manitoba) . 



P. [lecirophanes'] pictus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 379. — Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 viii, 1876, 106 (n. e. Illinois, common migrant). 



Pl.lectrophanes} pictus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 463. 



[Plectrophanes'} pictus Ooubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 134. 



Clentrophanes'] pictus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Mar., 1851, 127, footnote. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 358. 



Centraphanes pictus Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 97; Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 221.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 188.— 

 LooMis, Auk, ii, 1885, 190 (Chester, South Carolina). — Ageesboeg, Auk, ii, 



1885, 280 (s. e. South Dakota). 



Calcarius pictus Stsjubgsr, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 1882, 33. — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 537. — Seton, Auk, iii, 



1886, 323 (Big Plain and Winnipeg, Manitoba, spring and fall). — Nelson, 

 Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 186 (Fort Yukon).— Sharps, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 584 (Repulse Bay, Fort Anderson, Fort Simpson, Slave 

 Lake, and Rendezvous Lake, Arctic America; Riverside, Illinois). — Cooke, 

 Bird Migr. Miss. VaL, 1888, 185 (Bonham, Texas, Nov. 10; Caddo, Indian 

 Territory, Nov. 17 to Feb. 26; Fayetteville, Arkansas, Feb. 28) . — Poling, Auk, 

 vii, 1890, 240 (w. lUinois, spring and fall; habits).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 591 (Manitoba, spring and fall; habits). — Macpaelane, 

 Proc. XT. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 441 (e. of Fort Anderson and Lower Ander- 

 son R., breeding; descr. nest).— Loomis, Auk, viii, 1891, 167 (Chester, South 

 Carolina, Feb. 9); x, 1893, 152 (plumage of female).— Neheling, Our Native 

 Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 79.— Butlee, Birds Indiana, 1897, 932 (Lake Co., com- 

 mon during migration) . 



C. {alcarius} pictus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 405. 



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