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southern Greenland; winters from northern Lower California, southern 

 Arizona, southern Kansas, and the Ohio Valley (casually from the Potomac 

 Valley) south to Louisiana and Mississippi and over the Mexican plateau 

 to Sinaloa, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. 



b. Zonotrichia leucophrys gimbel (Nuttall). Gambel's Sparrow. [594a.] 



Fringilla gambelii Nuttall, Manual Orn., ed. 2, I, 1840, 556. (Near 

 Fort Walla Walla, Washington.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from limit of 

 trees in northwestern Alaska and northern Mackenzie (rarely outside the 

 mountains south of Great Slave Lake) south to central Oregon and central 

 Montana, west to coast mountains of southwestern Alaska and British 

 Columbia; winters from northern California and Utah south to San Luis 

 Potosi, Mazatlan, Lower California and outlying islands; casual east in 

 migration to Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and eastern Texas. 



c. Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli Ridgway. Nuttall's Sparrow. [5546.] 



Zonotrichia leucophrys niUtaUi Ridgway, Auk, XVI, Jan., 1899, 36. 

 (Santa Cruz, California.) 



Range. — Pacific coast. Breeds in Humid Transition Zone from Port 

 Simpson, British Columbia, to San Luis Obispo Covmty, California; winters 

 from central Oregon southward to Santa Margarita Island, Lower California. 



Zonotrichia corondta (Pallas). Golden-crowned Sparrow. [557.] 



Emberiza coronata Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1826 (1811?), 

 44, and pi. (Kadiak Island, Alaska.) 



Range. — Pacific coast region. Breeds at Kotzebue Sound and 

 south to Shumagin Islands, Alaska Peninsula, Kadiak Island, and 

 south at least to central British Columbia; winters from central 

 Oregon south throughout California west of the Sierra Nevada to 

 San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California, and on the Santa 

 Barbara Islands, and casually to Guadalupe Island ; in migration east 

 to east central Alaska and western Alberta, straggling east to Nevada 

 and Colorado; accidental in Wisconsin. 



Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin). White-throated Sparrow. [558.] 

 Fringilla albicollis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 921. (Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian and lower 

 Hudsonian zones from northern Mackenzie (Fort Good Hope), 



