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Lake and on the foothills and plains in Colorado. In habits it resembles 

 the Towhee of the Eastern States. 



Hab. High central plains of Upper Missouri, Yellowstone and Platte ;"basin of the Missouri River, espe- 

 cially west, including eastern slope of Rocky Mts., San Antonio, Texas. 



238^. Spurred Towhee — pipilo maculatus megalonyx. Greenish- 

 white, speckled with reddish-brown; usually four in number; size i. by 

 .70. This species has been obtained on the southern coast of California 

 and through the valleys of the Rio Grande and Gila. Mr. Otto Emerson 

 says they are quite common in the vicinity of Haywards, Cal, where he 

 has taken many nests. He says the nearest he has ever found the nest to 

 the ground was about ten inches. In other locaHties, however, it is known 

 to nest on the ground like the Eastern Towhee. 



Hab. Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. 



238/; Oregon Towhee — pipilo maculatus oregonus. Greenish-white, 

 very generally and profusely dotted and spotted with fine markings of 

 reddish and purplish-brown. More rounded-oval than eggs of this genus 

 generally are; usually four in number; size .97 by .80. The Oregon 

 Ground Robin is a resident in the western portion of the State of Oregon 

 and Washington Territory during the summer, and in the more northern 

 portions of California. The nest is placed on the ground and some- 

 times in bushes, on stumps, etc., like the Eastern Towhee's. It is com- 

 posed of grasses and leaves, with a lining of fine grass. 



Hab. Coasts of Oregon and Washington Territory, south to San Francisco, Cal. Eastward and south it 

 runs into megalonyx. West Humboldt Mts., and Northern Sierra Nevada. 



239. Green-tailed Towhee — pipilo chlorurus. White, with a bluish 

 tint, profusely dotted with pinkish-drab, sometimes so thickly distributed 

 as to give the egg the appearance of a uniform color, or as an unspotted 

 pinkish-drab, and again more sparsely diffused, nearly oval; four eggs is 

 the usual complement; size .98 by .81. The Green-tailed Bunting is gen- 

 erally distributed in all bushy places throughout the fertile mountain por- 

 tions of the interior. It is a characteristic bird of the eastern slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada, and a summer resident arriving at Virginia City about 

 the middle or latter part of April. The late Mr. Snowdon Howland in- 

 formed me that he collected a set of four eggs of this species in Wyom- 

 ing, in 187 1. He says the nest was placed on the ground in the usual 

 manner of that of the Eastern Towhee, and was composed of dry grasses 

 and shreds of bark. It was well concealed by a dense growth of low 

 bushes. 



Hab, Whole of Middle Province, including the' Rocky Mts., and eastern slope of Sierra Nevada; north to 

 beyond the 40th parallel; south to Mexico. 



240. Canon Towhee — pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. Similar to those 



