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southern California and central Texas to southern Lower California and 

 southern Mexico (Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca) and occasionally to 

 Louisiana. 



Genus CHONDESTES Swainson. 



Chondestes Swainson, Philos. Mag., n.s., I, No. 6, June, 1827, 435. Type, 

 by monotypy, Chondestes strigatus Sw.'VINSOn. 



Chondestes grammacus grammacus (S.\y). Eastern Lark Sparrow. [552.] 



FringiUa grammaca Say, in Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 1823, 139 (note). 

 (Prairies on the Missouri between the Kansas and Platte = Bellefon- 

 taine, four miles from the mouth of the Missouri River, Missouri.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in Austral zones from eastern Nebraska, north- 

 western Minnesota, central Wisconsin, and southern Ontario south to southern 

 Louisiana and central Alabama, east to extreme western Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland, and northwestern West Virginia. Winters in southern Mississippi, 

 southeastern Texas, and eastern Mexico. Casual in Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 

 wick, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, eastern Maryland, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, North Carolina, and Florida. 



Chondestes grammacus strigatus Swain.son. Western Lark Sparrow. 



[552a.] 



Chorulestes strigatus Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., I, No. 6, June, 1827, 

 435. (Temascaltepec, tableland of Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in Austral zones from southern British Columbia 

 and southern Saskatchewan south to the Mexican tableland (Coahuila, Chi- 

 huahua, Durango), and from the Pacific east to central North Dakota and 

 eastern Texas. Winters from northern California and southern Texas through 

 Lower California and southern Mexico to Guatemala. 



Genus AIMOPHILA Swainson. 



Aimophila Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, [July 1] 1837, 287. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Pipilo rufescens Swainson (Gray, 1840). 



Aimophila carpalis (CouEs) . Rufous-winged Sparrow. [579.] 



Peucaea carpalis CouES, Amer. Nat., VII, No. 6, June, 1873, 322 (note). 

 (Tucson, Arizona.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona (formerly) and Sonora south to northern Sinaloa. 



Aimophila ruficeps ruficeps (Cassin). Rufous-crowned Sparrow. [580.] 



Ainmodromus ruficeps Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, No. 5, 

 Sept.-Oct., 1852 [Dec. 31], 184. (Calaveras River [east of Stockton], 

 California.) 



