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central Keewatin, and southern Ungava south to central Alberta, 

 southern Montana, central Minnesota, central Wisconsin, southern 

 Ontario, and mountains of northern Pennsylvania, New York, and 

 Massachusetts; winters from Missouri, the Ohio Valley, southern 

 Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts (casually Maine) south 

 to northeastern Mexico and Florida; casual in Oregon, California, 

 Utah, and Colorado. 



GENUS SPIZELLA BONAPARTE. 



Spizella BONAPARTE, Giornale Arcadico, LII, 1832, 205. Type, by 

 monotypy, Fringilla pusilla WILSON. 



Spizella monticola (GMELIN). 



RANGE. Northern North America, south in winter nearly to 

 southern border of United States. 



a. Spizella monticola monticola (GMELIN). Tree Sparrow. [559.] 

 Fringilla monticola GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 912. (Canada.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds in Hudsonian Zone from 

 central Mackenzie (Great Bear Lake) and northern Ungava to Great Slave 

 Lake, central Keewatin, northern Quebec, and Newfoundland; winters from 

 southern Minnesota, Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces south to eastern 

 Oklahoma, central Arkansas, and South Carolina. 



b. Spizella monticola ochrdcea BREWSTER. Western Tree Sparrow. [559a.] 

 Spizella monticola ochracea BREWSTER, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, 



Oct., 1882, 228. (Fort Walla Walla, Washington.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from the coast of Bering Sea 

 east to the Anderson River, and south in mountains to central British 

 Columbia; winters through western North America to Arizona, New Mexico, 

 and central Texas and east to eastern Nebraska and eastern Kansas. 



Spizella passerina (BECHSTEIN). 



RANGE. North America, from southern Canada south to Nicaragua. 



a. Spizella passerina passerina (BECHSTEIN). Chipping Sparrow. [560.] 

 Fringilla passerina BECHSTEIN, in LATHAM, Allg. Ueb. Vogel, III, ii, 

 1798, 544, pi. 120, fig. 1. (Canada.) 



