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Aimophila aestivalis bachmani (Audubon). Bachman's Sparrow. [575a.] 



Fringilla Bachmani Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), II, pi. 165, 18.3.3 

 (Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 366). (Six miles north of Charleston [S. C.].) 



Range. — Breeds in the Upper and Lower Austral zones in central Illinois 

 (locally to southeastern Iowa), southern Indiana, southern Ohio, extreme 

 southwestern Pennsylvania, and central Virginia south to central Texas, 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and northwestern Florida. Winters from 

 southern North Carolina southward into Florida. Casual near Washington, 

 D. C; accidental in Ontario and northern New Jersey. 



Aimophila aestivalis aestivalis (Lichtenstein). Pine-woods Sparrow. [575.] 



Fringilla aestivalis Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 25. (Georgia.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lower Austral Zone of southeastern Georgia and 

 peninsular Florida. Winters in central and southern Florida. 



Aimophila botterii botterii (Sclater). Botteri's Sparrow. [576.] 



Zonotrichia hotlerii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., XXV, 1857, No. 311 

 [Jan. 12, 1858], 214. (Vicinity of Orizaba [Vera Cruz], in southern 

 Mexico.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona (formerly only?) and the Lower Rio Grande 

 Valley, Texas, south over the Mexican tableland to Chiapas, [.\llied races 

 occur in Mexico and Central America.] 



Aimophila cassini (Woodhouse). Cassin's Sparrow. [578.] 



Zonotrichia Cassinii Woodhouse, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, No. 2, 

 March-April, 1852 [June 9], 60. (Near San Antonio [Texas].) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lower Austral Zone from southeastern Nevada, 

 southeastern (casually central) Colorado, and southwestern Kansas south to 

 northern Sonora and the mouth of the Rio Grande. Winters from southern 

 Arizona to southern Sinaloa and central Tamaulipas. 



Genus AMPHISPIZA Coues. 



Amphisfiza CouES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 234. Type, by orig. desig., 



Emheriza bilineata Cassin. 



Amphispiza bilineata bilineata (Cassin). Black-throated Sparrow. [573.] 



Einberiza bilineata Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, No. 5, Sept.- 

 Oct., 18.50 [Dec. 7], 104 (pi. 3). (Te.xas, on the Rio Grande.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone of northern middle Texas south into Nuevo 

 Leon and Tamaulipas. 



