276 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Melospiza lincolni (AUDUBON). 
RanGE.— North America. 
a. Mlelospiza lincolni lincolni (AupuBon). Lincoln’s Sparrow. [583.] 
Fringiila lincolnii Aupuson, Birds Amer. (folio), II, 1834, pl. 193. 
(Near mouth of Natashquan River, Quebec.) 
Rance.— North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from the Kowak and 
Yukon valleys, Alaska, southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and northern 
Ungava south to northern Minnesota, central Ontario, northern New York, 
New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia and south in the Cascade, Sierra Nevada, 
and Rocky Mountains to southern California and northern New Mexico; win- 
ters from San Jacinto Mountains, California, southern Oklahoma, and northern 
Mississippi to Guadalupe Island, southern Mexico, and central Guatemala; 
casual only east of the Allegheny Mountains, south of Washington, D. C.; 
accidental in Panama. 
b. Melospiza lincolni striata Brewster. Forbush’s Sparrow. [583a.] 
Melospiza lincolni striata Brewster, Auk, VI, April, 1889, 89. (Sepa- 
rates publ. Jan. 31.) (Comox, B. C.) 
Rance.— Northwest coast region. Breeds from Prince William Sound to 
the Sitkan district, Alaska; winters south to southern Lower California. 
Melospiza georgiana (LATHAM). Swamp Sparrow. [584.] 
Fringilla georgiana Latuam, Index Orn., I, 1790, 460. (‘‘Georgie 
american interioribus.’’) 
Rance.— North America east of the Great Plains. Breeds in Cana- 
dian, Transition, and part of Upper Austral zones from west central 
Alberta, central Mackenzie, central Keewatin, central Quebec, and 
Newfoundland south to northern Nebraska, northern Missouri, 
northern Illinois, West Virginia (mountains), and New Jersey; win- 
ters from Nebraska, Ohio Valley, and Massachusetts (rarely) south 
to the Gulf coast from central Florida to southern Texas, southern 
Tamaulipas, and Jalisco, Mexico; accidental in Utah and Colorado; 
casual in Bermuda. 
