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587. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linvy.). 
Towhee. 
Fringilla erythrophthalma Linn. S. N. ed. to, I. 1758, 180. 
Pipilo erythrophthalmus ViEitu. Gal. Ois. I. 1824, 109, pl. 80. 
LB 391; C 204,:R 237, .C gon.] 
Groc. Dist.— Eastern United States and southern Canada, west 
to the Plains, breeding from the lower Mississippi Valley and 
Georgia northward ; in winter from the middle districts southward. 
587 a. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni CouvEs. 
White-eyed Towhee. 
Pipilo erythrophthalmus var. allent Cours, Am. Nat. V. Aug. 
1871, 366. 
[B—, C 204a, R 2374, C 302.] 
Gros. Dist.— Florida, and northward along the Atlantic coast to 
Charleston, South Carolina. 
588. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (SwaIns.). 
Arctic Towhee. 
Pyrgita (Pipilo) arctica Swans. in Sw. & Ricu. Fauna Bor. Am. 
TE1831,'260, pllsx,ig2. 
Pipilo maculatus var. arcticus COUES, Key, 1872, 152. 
[B 393, C 2052, R 238, C 304.] 
Groc. Dist.— Plains of the Platte, Upper Missouri, Yellowstone 
and Saskatchewan Rivers, west to the eastern slope of the Rocky 
Mountains, south in winter to Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. 
588 a. Pipilo maculatus megalony= (Barrb). 
Spurred Towhee. 
Pipilo megalonyx Bairv, B. N. Am. 1858, 515. 
Pipilo maculatus var. megalonyx COUES, Key, 1872, 152. 
[B 394, C 2054, R 238a, C 305.] 
Groc. Dist.— Rocky Mountain region of the United States, west 
to the Sierra Nevada and southern California, south into northern 
Mexico and Lower California. 
