ORDER PASSERES. 289 



Genus SFOROFHILA Cabanis. 

 Sporophila Cabanis, Fauna Peruana, 1844, 211. 



G02. Sporophila morelleti (Bonap.). 



Morellet's Seed-eater. 



Spermophila tnorelleti " Pucherax,' Bonap. Consp. Av. I, 1850,497. 

 Sporophi/a fnorelleii Cabaius, Mus. Hein. I. 1851, 150. 



[B 388, C 200, R 252, C 296.] 



Hab. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas, south through 

 Mexico to Costa Rica. 



Genus "BUETHEIA Reichenbach. 



Ettetheia Retch. Av. Syst. Nat. Knacker, "June i, 1850," pi. Ixxix. 

 Type, Emi .riza lepida Linn. 



603. Euetheia bicolor (Linn.). 



Grassquit. 



Frin^illa bicolor Linn. S. N. ed. 12, L 1766, 324. 

 Euethia bicolor Gundlach, J. f. O. XXIL 1874, 312. 



[B — , C 201, R 253, C 297.] 



Hab. West Indies. Accidental or casual in Southern Florida. 



Genus SPIZA Bonaparte. 



Spiza Bonap. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. IV. i. Aug. 1824. 45. 

 Type, Emberiza americana Gmel. 



604. Spiza americana (Gmel.). 



Dickcissel. 



Emberiza america?ta Gmel S. N. L ii. 1788, 872. 



Spiza americana RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IIL March 27, 1880, 3. 



[B378, C 191, R 254, C 287.] 



Hab. Eastern United States to the Rocky Mountains, north to 

 Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and south 

 in winter through Central America to Northern South America. 



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