ORDER PASSERIFORMES. 329 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones from the limit of trees in northwest Alaska, 

 northern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, and northern Quebec south to south- 

 ern British Columbia, southern Alberta, central Ontario, New York (Adiron- 

 dacks), New Hampshire (White Mountains), southern Maine, and southern 

 Nova Scotia. Winters in much of its breeding area and southward irregularly 

 to northern Oregon (Cascades), Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, southern Illinois, 

 southern Ohio, and North Carolina. Casual in Greenland, the British Isles, 

 and Heligoland. 



Subfamily EMBERIZINAE. Sparrows and Buntings. 



Genus ARREMONOPS Ridgway. 



ArremoHops Ridgway, Manual N. Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, -134, 605. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Embernagra rufivirqala Lawrence. 



Arremonops rufivirgatusrufivirgatus (Lawrence). Texas Sparrow. [586.] 



Embernagra rufivirg ta Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., V, 1851, 

 112 (pi. V, fig. 2). (Rio Grande in Texas = Brownsville, Texas.) 



Range. — Southeastern Texas (Fort Clark, Corpus Christi, and San Pa- 

 tricio) south to Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and San Luis Potosi. [A closely 

 allied race occurs in Vera Cruz.] 



Genus OBERHOLSERIA Richmond. 



Oberholseria Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, No. 39, Nov. 29, 

 1915, 180. Type, by orig. desig., Fringilla chlorura Audubon. 



Oberholseria chlorura (Audubon) . Green-tailed Towhee. [592.1.] 



Fringilla chlorura Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 336. (Ross' Creek = 

 about 20 miles southwest of Blackfoot, Idaho.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition Zone from central Oregon and south- 

 central Montana to southern California, southeastern New Mexico, and cen- 

 tral western Texas. Winters from southern California and western Texas to 

 Cape San Lucas and Guanajuato, Mexico. Accidental in Virginia and South 

 Carolina. 



Genus PIPILO Vieillot. 



Pipilo Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 32. Type, by monotypy, Pinson aux 

 yeux rouges Buffon = Fringilla erythrophthalma Linnaeus. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus). Red-eyed Towhee. 



[587.] 



Fringilla erythrophthalma Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 180. 

 Based on the Towhe-bird, Passer niger ocidis riibris Catesby, Carolina, 

 I, 34. (in America = South Carolina.) 



