272 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
a. Aimophila ruficeps ruficeps (Cassin). Rufous-crowned Sparrow. [580.] 
Ammodromus ruficeps Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1852, 
184. (Calaveras River, near Stockton, California.) 
Rance.— Upper Sonoran Zone of California west of the Sierra Nevada from 
Marin and Placer counties to San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California, 
and Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz islands. 
b. Aimophila ruficeps scOtti (SENNETT). Scott’s Sparrow. [580a.] 
Peucea ruficeps scottii SeEnNetT, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 42. (Pinal Co., 
Arizona.) 
RaneGsx.— Southern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and southwestern 
Texas south to Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango; casual in Colorado. 
c. Aimophila ruficeps eremeca (N. C. Brown). Rock Sparrow. [580bd.] 
Peucea ruficeps eremeca Brown, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, Jan., 
1882, 26. (Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas.) 
RancGeE.— Breeds in the Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma, and from Cook 
County, Texas, southwest to the Pecos River; winters south to Puebla and 
Vera Cruz. 
d. Aimophila ruficeps soréria Ripaway. Laguna Sparrow. [580c.] 
Aimophila ruficeps sororia Ripaway, Auk, XV, July, 1898, 226. (Vic- 
toria Mountains, Lower California.) 
RanGE.— Mountains of Cape Region of Lower California. 
GENUS MELOSPIZA Barrp. 
Melospiza Barry, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 476. Type, 
by orig. desig., Fringilla melodia WiLSON. 
Melospiza melodia (WILson). 
RancE.— North America from Alaska and northern Quebec south 
to southern border of Mexican tableland. 
a. Melospiza melodia melodia (Witson). Song Sparrow. [581.] 
Fringilla melodia Wiuson, Amer. Orn., II, 1810, 125, pl. xvi, fig. 4. 
(Eastern United States.) 
Ranee.— North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Breeds in Cana- 
dian, Transition, and Upper Austral zones from southern Mackenzie (Great 
