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central Keewatin, and southern Ungava south to central Alberta, 

 southern Montana, central Minnesota, central Wisconsin, southern 

 Ontario, and mountains of northern Pennsylvania, New York, and 

 Massachusetts; winters from Missouri, the Ohio Valley, southern 

 Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts (casually Maine) south 

 to northeastern Mexico and Florida; casual in Oregon, California, 

 Utah, and Colorado. 



Genus SFIZELLA Bonaparte. 



Spizella Bonapabte, Giomale Arcadico, LII, 1832, 205. Type, by 

 monotypy, Fringilla piisilla Wilson. 



SpizSlla monticola (Gmelin). 



Range. — Northern North America, south in winter nearly to 

 southern border of United States. 



a. Spizella monticola monticola (Gmelin). Tree Sparrow. [559.] 

 FringiUa monticola Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 912. (Canada.) 



Range. — Eastern North America . Breeds in Hudsonian Zone from 

 central Mackenzie (Great Bear Lake) and northern Ungava to Great Slave 

 Lake, central Keewatin, northern Quebec, and Newfoundland; winters from 

 southern Minnesota, Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces south to eastern 

 Oklahoma, central Arkansas, and South Carolina. 



b. Spizella monticola ochr&cea Brewster. Western Tree Sparrow. [559a.] 

 Spizella monticola ochracea Brewster, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, 



Oct., 1882, 228. (Fort WaUa WaUa, Washington.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds from the coast of Bering Sea 

 east to the Anderson River, and south in mountains to central British 

 Columbia; winters through western North America to Arizona, New Mexico, 

 and central Texas and east to eastern Nebraska and eastern Kansas. 



Spizella passerina (Bechstein). 



Range. — ^North America, from southern Canada south to Nicaragua. 



o. Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein). Chipping Sparrow. [560.] 

 FringiUa passerina Bechstein, in Latham, Allg. Ueb. Vogel, III, ii, 

 1798, 544, pi. 120, fig. 1. (Canada.) 



