356 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus MELOSPIZA Baird. 



Melospiza Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and 

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xx, xl, 440, 476. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Fringilla melodia Wilson. 



Subgenus HELOSPIZA Baird. 



Helospiza Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. 

 R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xx, xl, 476. Type, by orig. desig., Fringilla palus- 

 tris Wilson = Fringilla georgiana Latham. 



Melospiza lincolni lincolni (Audubon). Lincoln's Sparrow. [583.] 



Fringilla Lincolnii ■ Avvvbon, Birds .\njer. (folio), II, pi. 193, 1834 

 (Orn. Biog., 11, 1834, 539). ([Near the mouth of the Natashquan River] 

 Lal)rador [(iuebet^).) 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones from the Kowak and Yukon valleys, 

 Alaska, southern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, northern Quebec and New- 

 foundland to northern Minnesota, central Ontario, northern New York, New 

 Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and south in the Cascades, Sierra Nevada, and 

 Rocky Mountains to southern California and northern New Mexico. Winters 

 from central California, southern Oklahoma, and northern Mississippi (occa- 

 sionally northern Illinois and eastern Pennsylvania) to southern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, southern Mexico, and central Guatemala. Casual south of Washington, 

 D. C, east of the Alleghany Mountains; accidental in Panama. 



Melospiza lincolni gracilis (Kittlitz.) Forbush's Sparrow. [583«.] 



Emberiza {Zonotrichia) gracilis Kittlitz, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer., 

 Mikrones. und Kamtsc, I, 1858, 199. (Sitka, Alaska.) 



Range. — Breeds from Prince William Sound to the Sitkan district, Alaska. 

 Winters south to southern Lower California and western Guatemala. 



Melospiza georgiana (Latham). Swamp Sparrow. [584.] 



Fringilla georgiana Latham, Index Orn., I, 1790, 460. (Georgiae ameri- 

 canae interioribus = Georgia.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian, Transition, and part of the Upper Austral 

 zones from west-central Alberta, central Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, 

 southern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to ntirthern Nebraska, northern 

 Missouri, northern Illinois, West Virginia (mountains), southern Pennsylvania, 

 and New Jersey. Winters from Nebraska, the Ohio Valley, and New Jersey 

 (New York rarely, Massachusetts rarely) south to the Gulf coast from southern 

 Florida to southern Texas, southern Tamaulipas, and Jalisco, Mexico. Acci- 

 dental in Utah, Colorado, and California; casual in Bermuda. 



