Check-list of the Birds of Kansas

by Harrison Bruce Tordoff

No subspecies recognized.

* Piranga olivacea (Gmelin). Scarlet Tanager. Fairly common transient in east and uncommon summer resident in northeast. Distribution in state poorly known; breeding records from Doniphan, Leavenworth, and Cloud counties.

No subspecies recognized.

* Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. Common transient and summer resident, distribution poorly known. Recorded in migration (possibly breeding?) west to Morton County and breeding in Doniphan and Douglas counties. Not reported by Porter as nesting in Cloud County.

Subspecies in Kansas: P. r. rubra (Linnaeus).

* Richmondena cardinalis. Cardinal. Common resident in east, uncommon in west, rare in extreme southwest.

Subspecies in Kansas: R. c. cardinalis (Linnaeus).

* Pheucticus ludovicianus (Linnaeus). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Common transient and locally common summer resident in east. Reported in summer west to Rawlins County; probably absent in summer from southeast. Distribution poorly known.

No subspecies recognized.

* Pheucticus melanocephalus. Black-headed Grosbeak. Common transient and summer resident in west, nesting east to Cloud and Harvey counties. Occasionally occurs farther east in migration.