ORDER PASSERES. 281 



b. Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus BAIRD. Canon Towhee. [591.] 



Pipilo mesoleucus BAIRD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 119. 

 (Bill Williams Fork [= Big Sandy, just south of Lat. 35 N.], Arizona.) 



RANGE. Breeds in Upper Sonoran Zone from west central Arizona and 

 southeastern Colorado south to northeastern Sonora and western Texas. 



c. Pipilo fuscus albigula BAIRD. San Lucas Towhee. [591a.] 



Pipilo albigula BAIRD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 305. (Cape 

 San Lucas, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Cape Region of Lower California, north to latitude 29. 



Pipilo crissalis (VIGORS). 



RANGE. Pacific coast from southwestern Oregon to northern 

 Lower California. 



a. Pipilo crissalis crissalis (VIGORS). California Towhee. [591.1.] 



Fringilla crissalis VIGORS, in Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 19. (California, 

 probably San Francisco or Monterey.) 



RANGE. Upper Sonoran valleys and foothills of southwestern Oregon, and 

 of California from Shasta County south to Santa Barbara, Kern, and northern 

 San Bernardino counties. 



b. Pipilo crissalis senicula ANTHONY. Anthony's Towhee. [59 1.1 a.] 



Pipilo fuscus senicula ANTHONY, Auk, XII, April, 1895, 111. (San 

 Fernando, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Southern California south of the San Bernardino Mountains and 

 on the Pacific side of Lower California south at least to latitude 29. 



Pipilo aberti BAIRD. Abert's Towhee. [592.] 



Pipilo aberti BAIRD, in Stansbury's Rep. Exped. Utah, 1852, 325. (New 

 Mexico.) 



RANGE. Lower Sonoran Zone from southeastern California, 

 (Colorado River Valley and Desert), southern Nevada, and south- 

 western Utah to northwestern Sonora, southern Arizona, and south- 

 western New Mexico, and south, at least in winter, to northern Lower 

 California. 



