ORDER PASSERES. 283 



586. Embernagra rufivirgata LAWR. 



Texas Sparrow. 



Embernagra mfivirgata LAWR. Ann. Lye. N. Y. V. May, 1851, 112, 



pi. 5, fig. 2. 



[B 373, C 309, R 236, 311.] 



HAB. Valley of ihe Lower Rio Grande in Texas and Eastern 

 Mexico. 



GENUS PIFILO VIEILLOT. 



Pipilo VIEILL. Analyse, 1816, 32. Type, Fringilla erythrophthalma 

 LINN. 



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. 



[6391, C 204, R 237, C 301.] 



HAB. Eastern United States and Southern Canada, west to the 

 Plains. 



5870. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni COUES. 



White-eyed Towhee. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus var. alleni COUES, Am. Nat. V. Aug. 1871, 

 366. 



[B , C 204 tf, R 2370, C 302.] 

 HAB. Florida. 



588. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (SWAINS.). 



Arctic Towhee. 



Pyrgita {Pipilo) arctica SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 260, pis. 51, 52. 

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



[B 393, C 205 a, R 238, C 304.] 



HAB. Plains of the Platte, Upper Missouri, Yellowstone, and Sas- 

 katchewan Rivers, west to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 

 south in winter to Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. 



