244 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
[B 368, part, C 167, part, R 234, part, C 242, part.) 
Geoc. Dist.— British Columbia. 
584. Melospiza georgiana (LarTu.). 
Swamp Sparrow. 
Fringilla georgiana LATH. Ind. Orn. I. 1790, 460. 
Melospiza georgiana Ripew. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 355. 
['B.369, C168, Rl 234) Ciena 
Geoc. Dist.— Eastern North America to the Plains, accidentally 
to Utah, north to the British Provinces, including Newfoundland 
and Labrador. Breeds from the Northern States northward, and 
winters from Massachusetts southward to the Gulf States. 
Genus PASSERELLA Swainson. 
Passerella Swains. Classif. B. II. 1837, 288. Type, Aringilla 
tliaca MERR. 
585. Passerella iliaca (MeErR.). 
Fox Sparrow. 
fringilla tliaca MERREM, “ Beitr. zur besond. Gesch. der Végel, 
II. 1786-87, 40, pl. x.” 
FPasserella iliaca Swatns. Classif. B. II. 1837, 288. 
[B37 4) C88) "R) 235, )C 282n) 
Geoc. Dist.— Eastern North America, west to the Plains and 
Alaska (valley of the Yukon to the Pacific), and from the Arctic 
coast south to the Gulf States. Breeds north of the United States; 
winters chiefly south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers. Accidental 
in winter in California. 
585a. Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (GMEL.). 
Townsend’s Sparrow. 
Emberiza unalaschcensis GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 875. 
Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis Ripew. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. 
Mar. 1880, 3. 
