300 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian Zone and casually in the Transition from 

 southern Alberta, central Manitoba, central Ontario, central Quebec, and 

 Newfoundland south to central Minnesota, central Michigan, southern 

 Ontario, central New York, and Connecticut, and along the Alleghanies to 

 northern Georgia and Tennessee. Winters in Ecuador and Peru and casually 

 in Guatemala and Costa Rica; in migration to eastern Mexico (Tamaulipas and 

 Puebla). Casual in Colorado; accidental in Greenland. 



Genus SETOPHAGA Swainson. 



Setophaga Swainson, Philos. Mag., n.s., I, No. 5, May, 1827, 368. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Motacilla ruticilla Linnaetjs (Swainson, 1827). 



Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus). American Redstart. [687.] 



Motacilla Ruticilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 186. Based on 

 The Red-Start, Ruticilla amcricana Catesby, Carolina, I, 67. (in 

 America = Virginia.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Canadian and Transition zones from northern 

 British Cohunbia, central western Mackenzie, central Manitoba, southern Que- 

 bec, and Newfoundland to Oregon, northern Utah, Colorado, central Okla- 

 homa, Arkansas, southern Alabama, northern Georgia, and North Carolina. 

 Winters in the West Indies and from central Mexico (Puebla) and southern 

 Lower California (casually) to Ecuador and British Guiana. Casual in 

 Oregon, California, Arizona, and northern Ungava. 



Setophaga picta picta Swainson. Painted Redstart. , [688.] 



Setophaga picta Swainson, Zool. Illustr., ser. 2, I, 1829, pi. 3 and text. 

 (Real del Monte [Hidalgo], Mexico.) 



Range. — Mainly in the Transition Zone in the mountains of central Arizona, 

 southern New Mexico, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon south over the Mexican 

 tableland to Vera Cruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. Migratory in the 

 northern part of its range. [An allied race occurs in Central America.] 



Family PLOCEIDAE. Weaver Finches. 

 Subfamily PASSERINAE. House Sparrows. 



Genus PASSER Brisson. 



Passer Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 36; IH, 71. Type, by subs, desig.. Passer 

 doniesticus Brisson = Fringilla domestica Linnaeus (Gray, 1841), 



• Passer domesticus domesticus (Linnaeus). English Sparrow. [688.2.] 



Fringilla domestica Linnaexjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 183. . (in Europa 

 = Sweden.) 



