284 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



5880. Pipilo maculatus megalonyx (BAIRD). 



Spurred Towhee. 



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



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



[B 394, C 205 b, R 238 a, C 305.] 



HAB. Rocky Mountain region of the United States, west to the 

 Sierra Nevada and Southern California. 



588 . Pipilo maculatus oregonus (BELL). 



Oregon Towhee. 



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

 Pipilo ma.ulatus var. oregonus COUES, Key, 1872, 152. 



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



HAB. Pacific coast region, from Washington Territory south to San 

 Francisco, California. 



589. 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- R2 3 8^,C-.] 

 HAB. Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



590. Pipilo chlorurus (TOWNS.). 



Green-tailed Towhee. 



Fringilla chlorura " TOWNS." AUD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 336. 

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



[B 39 8, C 2 o8, R 239 , C 3 io.] 



HAB. Interior Plateau region of the United States, from the West- 

 ern border of the Plains to the Sierra Nevada, from about lat. 40 

 south into Mexico. 



