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h. Passerherbulus henslowi occidentalis (BREWSTER). Western Henslow's 

 Sparrow. [547a.] 



Ammodramus henslowii occidentalis BREWSTER, Auk, VIII, April, 1891, 

 145. (Moody Co., South Dakota.) 



RANGE, Breeds from South Dakota to northern Texas; winters in south- 

 eastern Texas. 



Passerherbulus lecontei (AUDUBON). Leconte's Sparrow. [548]. 



Emberiza leconteii AUDUBON, Birds Amer., VU, 1844, 338, pi. 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 caudacutus (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 nelsoni (ALLEN). 



RANGE. 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, 

 Illinois.) 



RANGE. 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. 



