ORDER PASSERES. 221 



[B— , C— , R i86, ^arf, C 2ig,par(.] 



Geog. Dist. — Pribilof and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Com- 

 mander Islands, Kamchatka. 



535. Plectrophenax hyperboreus Ridgw. 



McKay's Snowflake. 



Plectrophenax hyperboreus RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VII. 

 June II, 1884, 68. 



[B- C— , R-, C— .J 

 Geog. Dist. — Western Alaska, breeding on Hall Island (and 

 propably St. Matthew Island), Bering Sea. 



Genus CALCARIUS Bechstein. 



Calcarius Bechst. Taschb. Vog. Deutschl. 1803, 130. Type, 

 Fringilla lapponica Linn. 



536. Calcarius lapponicus (Linn.). 



Lapland Longspur. 



Fringilla lapponica Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 180. 



Calcarius lapponicus Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 1882, 



33- 



[B326, C 153, R 187, C 220.J 



Geog. Dist. — Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, 

 breeding far north ; in North America south in winter to the 

 northern United States, irregularly to the Middle States, accident- 

 ally to South Carolina, and abundantly in the interior to Kansas 

 and Colorado. 



537. Calcarius pictus (Swains.). 



Smith's Longspur. 



Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta Swains, in Sw. and Rich. Fauna 



Bor. Am. II. 183 1, 250, pi. 49. 

 Calcarius pictus Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 1882, 33. 



[B327, C 154, R 188, C 221.] 



Geog. Dist. — Interior of North America, from the Arctic coast 

 to Illinois and Texas, breeding far north. 



