258 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



6. Passerheibulus henslowi occident^lis (Bbewstes). Western Henslow'g 

 Sparrow. [547o.] 



Ammodramus henslowii occidentalis Brewster, Auk, VIII, April, 1891, 

 145. (Moody Co., South Dakota.) 



Range. — Breeds from South Dakota to northern Texas; winters in south- 

 eastern Texas. 



Passerherbulus lecontei (Audubon). Leconte's Sparrow. [548]. 



Emberiza leconteii Audubon, Birds Amer., VII, 1844, 338, pi. 488. (South- 

 ern South Dakota, south of mouth of White River.) 



Range. — Central North America. Breeds in Canadian and 

 Transition zones from Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie, southern Sas- 

 katchewan, and Manitoba southward to North Dakota and southern 

 Minnesota; winters from southern Kansas and southern Missouri to 

 Texas, Florida, and the coast of South Carolina, and occasionally to 

 North Carolina; casual in Ontario and New York; accidental in 

 Idaho and Colorado. 



Passerherbulus caudacutus (Gmelin). Sharp-tailed Sparrow. [549.] 

 Oriolus caudacutus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 394. (New York.) 



Range. — Salt marshes of Atlantic coast. Breeds in Transition and 

 Upper Austral zones from Massachusetts to Virginia; winters on salt 

 marshes from New Jersey (casually from Massachusetts) to Florida. 



Passerherbulus nglsoni (Allen). 



Range. — Eastern North America, breeding mainly north of the 

 United States, south in winter to the South Atlantic and Gulf States. 



u. Passerherbulus nelsoni nelsom (Allen). Nelson's Sparrow. [549.1.] 



Ammodromus caitdacutus var. nelsoni Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 XVII, 1875, 293. (Calumet Marshes, Ainsworth, now South Chicago, 

 Illinois.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian and upper Transi- 

 tion zones from Great Slave Lake and west central Alberta southeastward 

 to southwestern Manitoba and northeastern South Dakota; winters on the 

 Atlantic and Gulf coasts from North Carolina to Florida and Texas; north- 

 ward on the Atlantic coast during migration at least to New York, Massa- 

 chusetts, and Maine ; accidental in California. 



