Check-list of the Birds of Kansas

by Harrison Bruce Tordoff

Subspecies in Kansas: P. m. melanocephalus (Swainson).

* Guiraca caerulea. Blue Grosbeak. Common transient and summer resident in most of state; locally common in summer in northeast.

Subspecies in Kansas: G. c. caerulea (Linnaeus) in east, G. c. interfusa Dwight and Griscom in west; most specimens from state are intergrades.

Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus). Indigo Bunting. Common transient and summer resident west to Finney County, status in extreme west not known but probably absent there.

No subspecies recognized.

Passerina amoena (Say). Lazuli Bunting. Common transient and probably summer resident in extreme western Kansas. No breeding record. Rare in east in migration.

No subspecies recognized.

* Passerina ciris. Painted Bunting. Fairly common summer resident in east, west to Barber and north to Riley and Shawnee counties. One positive nesting record: nest with young, successfully fledged, Lawrence, Douglas County, spring and summer, 1918, Bessie D. Reed.

Subspecies in Kansas: P. c. pallidior Mearns.