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b. Pagsserherbulus henslowi occidentalis (BREwsTER). Western Henslow’s 
Sparrow. [547a.] 
Ammodramus henslowii occidentalis Brewster, Auk, VIII, April, 1891, 
145. (Moody Co., South Dakota.) 
RaNnGE.— Breeds from South Dakota to northern Texas; winters in south- 
eastern Texas. 
Passerherbulus lecdntei (AUDUBON). Leconte’s Sparrow. [548]. 
Emberiza leconteti AUDUBON, Birds Amer., VII, 1844, 338, pl. 488. (South- 
ern South Dakota, south of mouth of White River.) 
RanGE.— Central North America. Breeds in Canadian and 
Transition zones from Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie, southern Sas- 
katchewan, and Manitoba southward to North Dakota and southern 
Minnesota; winters from southern Kansas and southern Missouri to 
‘Texas, Florida, and the coast of South Carolina, and occasionally to 
North Carolina; casual in Ontario and New York; accidental in 
Idaho and Colorado. 
Passerherbulus caudacitus (GMELIN). Sharp-tailed Sparrow. [549.] 
Oriolus caudacutus GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 394. (New York.) 
RANGE.— Salt marshes of Atlantic coast. Breeds in Transition and 
Upper Austral zones from Massachusetts to Virginia; winters on salt 
marshes from New Jersey (casually from Massachusetts) to Florida. 
Passerherbulus nélsoni (ALLEN). 
RanaeE.— Eastern North America, breeding mainly north of the 
United States, south in winter to the South Atlantic and Gulf States. 
a. Passerherbulus nelsoni nelsoni (ALLEN). Nelson’s Sparrow. [549.1.] 
Ammodromus caudacutus var. nelsoni ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 
XVII, 1875, 293. (Calumet Marshes, Ainsworth, now South Chicago, 
Hlinois.) 
RancGeE.— Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian and upper Transi- 
tion zones from Great Slave Lake and west central Alberta southeastward 
to southwestern Manitoba and northeastern South Dakota; winters on the 
Atlantic and Gulf coasts from North Carolina to Florida and Texas; north- 
ward on the Atlantic coast during migration at least to New York, Massa- 
chusetts, and Maine; accidental in California. 
