ORDER PASSERES. 287 



Sporophila morelleti (BONAPARTE) 



RANGE. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, Texas, south through 

 eastern Mexico to Costa Rica. 



a. [Sporophila morelleti morelleti. Extralimital.] 



6. Sporophila morelleti sharpei LAWRENCE. Sharpens Seedeater. [602.] 



Sporophila morelleti sharpei LAWRENCE, Auk, VI, Jan., 1889, 53. (Lom- 

 ita, Texas.) 



RANGE. Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Nuevo Leon and Tamauli- 

 pas, Mexico. 



[GENUS TIARIS SWAINSON. 



Tiaris SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 438. Type, by 

 monotypy, Tiaris pusillus SWAINSON. 



Tiaris bicolor (LINNAEUS). Grassquit. [603.] 



Fringilla bicolor LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 324. (Bahama 

 Islands.) 



RANGE. Bahamas; accidental at Miami, Florida. 



Tiaris canora (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 americana (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- 



