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GENUS PIPILO VIEILLOT. 



Pipilo VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 32. Type, by monotypy, " Pinson aux 

 yeux rouges, Buff." = Fringilla erythrophthalma LINN^US. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Eastern North America from southern Canada to the 

 Gulf coast. 



a. Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (LINN.EUS). Towhee. [587.] 



Fringilla erythrophthalma LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 180. 

 (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds in Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones east of the Great Plains from southeastern Saskatchewan, south- 

 ern Manitoba, southern Ontario, and southern Maine south to central Kansas 

 and northern Georgia; winters from southeastern Nebraska, the Ohio and 

 Potomac valleys (casually New England) to central Texas, the Gulf coast, and 

 southern Florida. 



b. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni COUES. White-eyed Towhee. [587o.] 



Pipilo alleni COUES, Amer. Nat., V, Aug., 1871, 366 (note). (Dummitt, 

 20 miles south of New Smyrna, Florida.) 



RANGE. Coast region from about Charleston, South Carolina, south- 

 ward, including Florida. 



Pipilo macultus SWAINSON. 



RANGE. Western North America from British Columbia and 

 southern Saskatchewan to the highlands of Guatemala. 



a. [Pipilo maculatus maculatus. Extralimital.] 



6. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (SWAINSON). Arctic Towhee. [588.] 



Pyrgita (Pipilo) arctica SWAINSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 

 260, pll. 51, 52. (Carlton House, Saskatchewan.) 



RANGE. Great Plains and Rocky Mountain region. Breeds in Transition 

 and Upper Sonoran zones from southern Alberta and Forks of Saskatchewan 

 south to west central Montana and northwestern Nebraska; occurs in migra- 

 tion in western Wyoming and northeastern Utah; winters from eastern Colo- 

 rado and southern Nebraska to southern Texas; casual in Illinois and Wis- 

 consin. 



