BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Eastern United States and more southern British provinces, west to 

 the more eastern portions of the Great Plains; breeding from upper 

 Georgia and South Carolina, northwestern Florida (Wacissa River), 

 central Alabama and ^Mississippi, and central Texas (San Antonio), 

 northward to Maine, Ontario, Manitoba (Red River Valley, Winnipeg, 

 Qu' Appelle, etc.); wintering in more southern United States, from 

 Florida to Texas, northward to about 39^, occasionally farther. 



{.'') [Motacilla~\ junmrum Gmelix, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 952 (based on EusJt Warbler 



Latham, Gen. Synop., ii, pt. ii, 420). 

 {?) Sylvia juncorum Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, .511. 

 Fringilla juneorum Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 499; 2d ed., i, 



1840, .577. 



Fringilla pusilla Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, ISIO, 121, pi. 16, fig. 2 (e. Pennsylvania; 



Peale's Mus.; habits, etc.). — Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 229, pi. 139. 

 F.[riiigilla] pusilla Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 25. 

 Emheriza pusilla (not of Pallas, 1826) Jardine, ed. "Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 



265, pi. 16, fig. 2.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 104; Birds Am., oi-t. ed., iii, 



1841, 77, pi. 164. 



Z.[ouofrichia'} pusilla Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 373. 



[Zonotrichia} pusilla Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7396. 



Spizella pusilla Bonaparte, ( jeog. and Comp. List, 1838, 33. — Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 473; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 358.— Sclater, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 114 (Pennsylvania) . — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 489 (San Antonio, 

 Texas, Dec, Mar.).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 179; Birds N. W., 1874, 

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

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 5, pi. 27, fig. 2. — Maynard, Birds Florida, pt. iv, 

 1878, 97.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 121 (descr. young) ; 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 108 (w. North Carolina, breeding; song). — Brown, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 9 (Coosada, Alabama, breeding). — Gibbs, Bull. IT. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 487, (Michigan, breeding n. to 43°). — 

 Slade, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 116 (nesting, etc.) .—Ridgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 214.— Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882, 37 

 (Navarro Co., Texas, Oct. to Mar.). — Bicknell, Auk, ii, 1885, 145 (song). — 

 Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South Dakota, summer) . — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 563. — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 324 (Red R. Settlement and Red R. Valley, w. Manitoba, breeding). — 

 DuTCHER, Auk, iii, 1886, 442 (Setauket, Long Island, Jan. 31) . — Treat, Auk, 



decidedly toward the latter, but, as a rule, western specimens are so nearly identical 

 with eastern that they may without hesitation be referred to S. pusilla proper. Aver- 

 age measurements of nearly equal series from the two districts are as follows: 



