BIRDS OF N^ORTH A^B MIDDLE AMERICA. 195 



southern portion of Mexican plateau (states of Puebla, Mexico, Tlax- 

 :ala. Hidalgo, etc.), and from the Pacilic coast (north of San Francisco 

 Bay) to eastern edge of the Great Plains, plains of the Saskatchewan, 

 3tc. ; in winter throughout valleys of entire west (including southern 

 California and Lower California) and whole of Mexico, excepting the 

 Herra eah'ente, and to Guatemala (Hacienda Chancol, Jan.). 



Passerculus alaudhms Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxvii, Dec, 1853, 918 (Cali- 

 fornia) ; Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854:, 18. — Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 446; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 4, fig. 1; Rep. U. S.and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 15 (Brownsville, Texas; Tamaulipas); Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 335.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 303 (La 

 Parada, Oaxaca) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 112 (n. California; Nebraska; Oax- 

 aca). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 199 

 (Coast of Washington) . — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 398 (Duenas, Gua- 

 temala) . — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 487 (near San Antonio, Texas) . — Coues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 84 (Fort Whipple, Arizona). — DALLand Bannister, 

 Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 284 (Sitka and Yukon R., Alaska).— Elliot, 

 Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, 1869, pi. 13. — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 552 (Vera Cruz, winter).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 181.— 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds.i, lS74,pL24,fig. 11. 



[Zonolrichia^ alaudina Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 95, no. 7411. 



Zonotrichia alaudina Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 51 (crit. ). 



Passerculus savanna, var. alaudinus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Plist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 537.— Lawrence, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 21 (Tehuan- 

 tepec City, Oaxaca, Nov. ) . 



Passerndus savanna . . . var. a/fa«?(/iM.s Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 

 182 (Colorado).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 

 61 (Denver, Colorado), 79 (Garland, Colorado), 111 (Mount Graham, Apache, 

 and Camp Grant, Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 254 (localities 

 in Nevada, L^tah, Colorado, and Arizona). 



Passerculus savanna alaudinus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 11, 19 

 (Carson and West Humboldt Mts., Nevada). — Coues and Streets, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 9 (Rio San Ignacio, Sonora).— Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 164 (Fort Klamath, e. Oregon).— Roberts and Benner, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 14 (Grant and Traverse counties, Minnesota, 

 breeding). — Finsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 273 (Portage Bay, Alaska, May). 



Passerculus sandvichensis, y. alaudinus Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii, May, 1877, 

 198 (Colorado). 



Passerculus sandvichensis . . . a. fl/awdums Ridgway, Orn. 40th parallel, 1877, 464 

 (moist valleys and marshes, Nevada and Utah, breeding; habits, song, etc.). 



Passerculus sandvicensis, y. alaudinus Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, April, 

 1878, 66 (centr. California); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 415 (do.). 



P-lasserculusI savanna alaudinus Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 293 

 (Washoe Lake, Nevada, and northward, breeding). 



Passerculus sandaichensis alaudinus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 

 1880, 178; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 193/j.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 151 (Chugachik Bay, Cook Inlet, Chamisso I., and Kadiak, 

 Alaska, breeding). — Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 70 (coast of 

 Bering Sea, Yukon district, etc.), — Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 

 350 (La Paz, Lower California, winter) .—Goss, Auk, iii, 1886, 114 (TklcPher- 

 son Co., Kansas, Oct.). — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 36 

 (summer resid. on coast) . 



