254 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Genus PASSERCULUS Bonaparte. 



Passerculus Bonapahtb, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 33. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Fringilla savanna Wilson (Gray, 1840). 



Passerculus princeps Matnard. Ipswich Sparrow. [541.] 



Passerculus princeps Maynaed, Amer. Nat., VI, 1872, 637. (Ipswich, 



Mass.) 



Range. — North Atlantic coast. Breeds on Sable Island, Nova 

 Scotia; winters from Sable Island southward along the Atlantic coast 

 to Greorgia. 



Passerculus sandwichensis (Gmelin). 



Range. — North America from the Arctic coast south to Guatemala 

 and the West Indies, breeding in the East mostly north of the United 

 States, in the West south to the southern part of the Mexican table- 

 land. 



a. Passerculus sandwichensis sandwichensis (Gmelin). Aelutian Savannah 



Sparrow. [542.] 



Emberiza sandwichensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 875. (Unalaska, 

 Alaska.) 



Range. — Northwest coast. Breeds on Unalaska and contiguous islands; 

 winters eastward and southward along the coast of British Columbia, rarely 

 to northern California. 



b. Passerculus sandwichensis savdnna (Wilson). Savannah Sparrow. [542a.] 



Fringilla savanna Wilson, Amer. Orn., Ill, 1811, 55, pi. 22, fig. 3. (Near 

 Great Egg Harbor, N. J.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds mainly in Boreal and Transi- 

 tion zones from central Keewatin and northern Ilngava south to northern 

 Iowa (casually Missouri), northern Indiana, mountains of Pennsylvania, 

 Connecticut, and Long Island, and casually in southern New Jersey; winters 

 from southern Indiana and southern New Jersey south to northeastern Mexico, 

 the Gulf coast, Bahamas, and Cuba ; casual in Bermuda. 



c. Passerculus sandwichensis alaudfnus Bonaparte. Western Savannah 



Sparrow. [5426.] 



Passerculus alaudinus Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, XXXVII, 1853, 

 918. (California.) 



