246 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



587. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn.). 



Towhee. 



Fringilla erythrophthalma Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 180. 

 Pipilo erythrophthalmus Vieill. Gal. Ois. I. 1824, 109, pi. 80. 



[B 391, C 204, R 237, C 301.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States and southern Canada, west 

 to the Plains, breeding from the lower Mississippi Valley and 

 Georgia northward ; in winter from the middle districts southward. 



687 a. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni Coues. 



White-eyed Towhee. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus var. alleni Coues, Am. Nat. V. Aug. 

 1871, 366. 



[B— , C 204a, R 237a, C 302.] 



Geog. Dist. — Florida, and northward along the Atlantic coast to 

 Charleston, South Carolina. 



688. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (Swains.). 



Arctic Towhee. 



Pyrgita {Pipilo) arctica Swains, in Sw. & Rich. Fauna Bor. Am. 



II. 1831, 260, pU. 51, 52. 

 Pipilo maculatus var. arcticus CouES, Key, 1872, 152. 



[B 393, C 2os«, R 238, C 304.] 



Geog. Dist. — Plains of the Platte, Upper Missouri, Yellowstone 

 and Saskatchewan Rivers, west to the eastern slope of the Rocky 

 Mountains, south in winter to Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. 



688^. Pipilo maculatus megalonyx (Baird). 



Spurred Tow^liee. 



Pipilo megalonyx Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 515. 



Pipilo maculatus var. megalonyx Coues, Key, 1872, 152. 



[B 394, C 205^, R 238^, C 305.] 



Geog. Dist. — Rocky Mountain region of the United States, west 

 to the Sierra Nevada and southern California, south into northern 

 Mexico and Lower California. 



