ORDER PASSERES. 283 



586. Embernagra rufivirgata LAWR. 



Texas Sparrow. 



Embernagra rufivirgata LAWR. Ann. Lye. N. Y. V. May, 1851, 112, 

 pi. 5, fig. 2. 



[B 373, C 209, R 236, C 311.] 



HAB. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas and Eastern 

 Mexico. 



GENUS PIPILO VIEILLOT. 



Pipilo VIEILL. Analyse, 1816, 32. Type, Fringilla erythrophlhalma 

 LINN. 



587. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (LINN.). 



Towhee. 



Fringilla erythrophthal&a LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 180. 

 Pipilo erythrophthalmus VIEILL. Gal. Ois. I. 1824, 109, pi. go. 



[6391, C 204, R 237, 0301.] 



HAB. Eastern United States and Southern Canada, west to the 

 Plains. 



587 a. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleiii COUES. 



White-eyed Towhee. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus var. allcni COUES, Am. Nat. V. Aug. 1871, 

 366. 



[B , C 204^7, R 237^7, C 302.] 

 HAB. Florida. 



588. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (SWAINS.). 



Arctic Towhee. 



Pyrgita (Pipilo) arctica SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 260, pis. 51, 52. 

 Pipilo maculatus var. arcticus COUES, Key, 1872, 152. 



C B 393, C 205 a, R 238, C 304.] 



HAB. Plains of the Platte, Upper Missouri, Yellowstone, and Sas- 

 katchewan Rivers, west to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 

 south in winter to Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. 



