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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. 



587 a. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni COUES. 



White-eyed Towhee. 



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

 1871, 366. 



[B , C 2040, R 2370, C 302.] 



GEOG. DIST. Florida, and northward along the Atlantic coast to 

 Charleston, South Carolina. 



588. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (SWAINS.). 



Arctic Towhee. 



Pyrgita (Pipilo} arctica SWAINS, in Sw. & RICH. Fauna Bor. Am. 



II. 1831, 260, pll. 51, 52. 

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



[B 393, C 2050, 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. 



588 a. 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^, R 2380, 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. 



