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588^. Pipilo macnlatus oregonus (Bell). 

 Oregon Towhee. 



Pipilo oregonus Bell, Ann. Lye. N. Y. V. 1852, 6. 

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



[B 392, C 205, R 238^, C 303.] 



Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast region, from British Columbia south 

 to San Francisco, and, in winter, to southern California. 



689. Pipilo consobrinus Ridgw. 



Guadalupe Towhee. 



Pipilo maculatus consobrinus Ridgw. Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. 



Surv. Terr. II. No. 2, April i, 1876, 189. 

 Pipilo consobrinus Ridgw. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, II. July, 1877, 60. 



[B-, C-,R238^, C-.] 



Geog. Dist. — Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



590. Pipilo chlorunis (Towns.). 



Green-tailed Towhee. 



Fringilla chlorura Towns, in Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, ZZ^' 

 Pipilo chlorurus Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 519. 



[B 398, C 208, R239, C310.] 



Geog. Dist. — Interior Plateau region of the United States, from 

 the western border of the Plains to the Sierra Nevada, from central 

 Idaho and Yellowstone National Park south to Cape St. Lucas, and 

 on the tablelands of Mexico to Guanajuato. 



591. Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus (Baird). 



Canon Towhee. 



Pipilo mesoleucus Baird, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1854, 119. 

 Pipilo fuscus var. mesoleucus Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. V. Nov. 

 1873, 183. 



[B 397, C 206, R 240, C 306.] 



Geog. Dist. — Southern border of the United States, from the val- 

 ley of the Upper Rio Grande west to the valley of the Gila, south 

 into Sonora and Chihuahua. 



