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Status — A fairly common winter visitant or transient. Specimens have 

 been taken as follows: San Pedro River and Tucson, winter (Scott. 1887, p. 204) ; 

 Sulphur Spring- Valley, March ( Osgood, 1903, p. 149) ; San Francisco Mountain, 

 August (Merriam, 1890, p. 97) ; and Colorado River at Needles, mouth of Bill 

 Williams River, and Riverside Mountain, February and March, 1910 (Mus. Vert. 

 Zool.). Probably a migrant in northern Arizona, and a winter visitant along the 

 lower Colorado River, and in the southern valleys. 



254. Melospiza melodia merrilli Brewster. 



Merrill Song Sparrow. 

 Status — Recorded from Apache, Arizona, in winter (Ridgway, 1901, p. 361). 



255. Melospiza lincolni lincolni (Audubon). 



Lincoln Sparrow. 



Synonym — Peucaea lincolni. 



Status — Of fairly common, occurrence as a migrant in suitable places; gener- 

 ally distributed and reported from many scattered localities. Probably remains in 

 the valley of the lower Colorado River throughout the winter, though there is no 

 definite data establishing this as a fact. Possibly a winter visitant in other parts of 

 southern Arizona also. Found on the Bill Williams River in February (Kennedy, 

 1859. p. 29). 



256. Passerella iliaca schistacea Baird. 



Slate-colorEd Fox Sparrow. 



Synonym — Passerella townsendi sch istacca. 



Status — A rare migrant and winter visitant. There are published records 

 of but four specimens from Arizona : one from a point forty miles south of Cam]) 

 Apache, September 1. 1873 ( Henshaw, 1875b, p. 293) ; one from Tucson, Febru- 

 ary, 1880 (Brewster, 1882, p. 197); one from San Francisco Mountain, Sep- 

 tember 29, 1889 (Merriam, 1890, p. 97) ; and one from the Huachuca Mountains. 

 November 20, 1894 (Fisher, 1904. p. 81). 



257. Pipilo maculatus montanus Swailb. 



Mountain Towhee. 



Synonyms — Pipilo arctica; Pibilo erythrophthahniis ; Pipilo oregoniis; Pipilo 

 megalonyx; Pipilo maculatv.s me gal onyx. 



Status -Common resident of the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones in 

 northern and eastern Arizona. Its westernmost limits might be indicated by a line 

 drawn from the Santa Rita and Santa Catalina mountains in the southeast, to the 

 Hualpai Mountains in the northwest. Apparently strictly resident where found, 

 there being no migratory movement into the lowlands in winter. There are no 

 records from the vallev of the lower Colorado River. 



