ORDER PASSERES. Pilg 
RanaceE.— Western North America. Breeds from the Arctic coast of Alaska 
and Mackenzie to southern part of Mexican tableland, Puebla, and Tlaxcala, 
and from the Pacifie coast north of California to the western border of the 
Great Plains (in migration to middle of the Plains); winters from northern 
California and northern Texas to Lower California, Mexico (except the tropi- 
eal border), and south to Guatemala. 
d. Passerculus sandwichensis brfanti Rincway. Bryant’s Sparrow. [542c.] 
Passerculus sandwichensis bryanti Ripaway, Proce. U. 8. Nat. Mus., VII, 
1885, 517. (Oakland, California.) 
Rance.— Coast of California. Breeds on salt marshes from Humboldt 
Bay to San Francisco Bay; winters coastwise to southern California; occa- 
sional in the Valley of Mexico. 
Passerculus béldingi Ripaway. Belding’s Sparrow. [543.] 
Passerculus beldingi Ripaway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1885, 516. 
(San Diego, California.) 
RaANGE.— Salt marshes of southern California and Lower Cali- 
fornia from Santa Barbara to Todos Santos Island and San Quintin 
Bay. 
Passerculus rostratus (CAssIN). 
RanGE.— Southern California, Lower California, and adjacent 
islands. 
a. Passerculus rostratus rostratus (Cassin). Large-billed Sparrow. [544.] 
Emberiza rostrata Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1852, 184. 
(San Diego, California.) 
Rance.— Coast of southern California and Lower California. Breeding 
range unknown, but probably from about San Pedro, California, to near San 
Quintin Bay, Lower California; winters from San Pedro southward along 
both coasts of Lower California to Cape San Lucas, and on Todos Santos 
Island and coast of Sonora as far as Guaymas; casual in Arizona. 
b. Passerculus rostratus guttatus Lawrence. San Lucas Sparrow. [544a.] 
Passerculus guttatus LAWRENCE, Ann. Lyc. N. H. N. Y., VIII, 1867, 473. 
(San José del Cabo, Lower California.) 
Rance.— Lower California. Breeds on Abreojos Point; winters in south- 
ern part of the Peninsula (San José del Cabo). 
