344 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Amphispiza bilineata deserticola Ridgway. Desert Sparrow. [573a.] 



Amphispiza bilineata deserticola Ridgway, Auk, XV, No. .3, July, 1898, 

 229 (separates publ. May 13). (Tucson, Arizona.) 



Range. — Breeds from northeastern California, northern Nevada, northern 

 Utah, northwestern Colorado, and central western Texas south to northern 

 Lower California (about lat. 27°), Sonora, and Chihuahua. Winters from 

 southeastern California, southern Arizona, and southern New Mexico south- 

 ward. 



Amphispiza bilineata bangsi Grinnell. Bangs's Sparrow. [5736.] 



Amphispiza bilineata bangsi Grinnell, Auk, XLIV, No. 1, Jan. 5, 1927, 

 71. (La Paz, Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape district of Lower California north to lat. 26°, in the Lower 

 Sonoran Zone. 



Amphispiza belli belli (Cassin). Bell's Sparrow. [574.] 



Emberiza Belli Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, No. 5, Sept.-Oct.. 

 1850 [Dec. 7], 104 (pi. 4). (California near Sonoma and San Diego.) 



Range.^ — -Upper Austral Zone of California, west of the Sierra Nevada, south 

 in the interior from Shasta County and on the coast from Marin County, 

 through the San Diegan district to lat. 29° 30' in Lower California; also on 

 San Clemente and other of the coastal islands. 



Amphispiza belli cinerea Townsend. Gray Sage Sparrow. [574.1a.] 



Amphispiza belli cinerea C. H. Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 

 No. 799, Sept. 9, 1890, 136. (Ballaenas Bay, Lower CaHfornia.) 



Range. — Middle Lower California, between lat. 29° and lat. 26° in the 

 lower Austral Zone. 



Amphispiza nevadensis nevadensis (Ridgway). Northern Sage Sparrow. 



[574.1.] 



Poospiza Bella var. Nevadensis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, No. 11, 

 Nov., 1873, 191, (of. also No. 12, 198). (West Humboldt Mts., 

 Nevada.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Upper Austral Zone of the Great Basin dis- 

 trict, from east-central Washington, eastern Oregon, northeastern California, 

 central Idaho, southwestern Montana, and western Colorado south to central 

 eastern California, southern Nevada, Utah, and northwestern New Mexico. 

 Winters from the southern portion of the breeding range to southwestern 

 California, extreme northeastern Lower California, Arizona, New Mexico, 

 central western Texas, and Chihuahua. 



