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Spordphila morelléti (BONAPARTE) 
RaNncE.— Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, Texas, south through 
eastern Mexico to Costa Rica. 
a. [Sporophila morelleti morelleti. Extralimital.] 
b. Sporophila morelleti sharpei Lawrence. Sharpe’s Seedeater. ([602.] 
Sporophila morelleti sharpet LAWRENCE, Auk, VI, Jan., 1889, 53. (Lom- 
ita, Texas.) 
Rance.— Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Nuevo Leon and Tamauli- 
pas, Mexico. 
[Genus TIARIS Swanson. 
Tiaris Swanson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 488. Type, by 
monotypy, Tiaris pusillus SWAINSON, 
Tiaris bicolor (LINN&Us). Grassquit. [603.] 
Fringilla bicolor Linnzxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 324. (Bahama 
Islands.) 
Rance.— Bahamas; accidental at Miami, Florida. 
Tiaris candra (GMELIN). Melodious Grassquit. [603.1.] 
Loxia canora GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 858. (‘In nova Hispania’”’ 
= Cuba.) 
RaNGE.— Cuba; accidental on Sombrero Key, Florida.] 
GENUS SPIZA BoNAPARTE. 
Spiza Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, i, 1824, 45. Type, 
by subs. desig., Emberiza americana GMELIN (Bonaparte, 1827). 
Spiza americéna (GMELIN). Dickcissel. [604.] 
Emberiza americana GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 872. (New York.) 
RanGE.— Eastern North America and northern South America. 
Breeds chiefly in Austral zones from northeastern Wyoming, north- 
