264 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMERICAN BIEDS. 



Range.— Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition, and 

 Austral zones from central Saskatchewan, southwestern Keewatin, northern 

 Ontario, central Quebec, and Cape Breton Island to central Texas, southern 

 Mississippi, and central Georgia; winters chiefly in southern States, occasion- 

 ally as far north as Oklahoma and southern New Jersey; casual in Cuba 

 and northeastern Mexico. 



b. Spizella passerina arizonas Coues. Western Chipping^ Sparrow. [560a.] 



Spizella sodalis var. arisona Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 143. (Fort 

 Whipple, Arizona.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition, and 

 Upper Sonoran zones from Yukon (Dawson), Mackenzie (Fort Good Hope), 

 and northeastern Alberta to tableland and mountains of Chihuahua, northern 

 Mexico; winters from southern California and central Texas south to Cape 

 San Lucas, Puebla, Michoacan, and Oaxaca; casually to Guadalupe Island. 



Spizella p§,llida (Swainson). Clay-colored Sparrow. [561.] 



Emberiza pallida Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 251. 

 (Carlton House, Saskatchewan.) 



Range. — Interior North America. Breeds in Canadian and 

 Transition zones from southeastern British Columbia, southern Mac- 

 kenzie (Great Slave Lake), southwestern Keewatin, and Isle Royale, 

 Michigan, to western Montana, southeastern Colorado, northern 

 Nebraska, and northwestern Illinois ; winters from southern Arizona, 

 southern New Mexico, and southern Texas south to Cape San Lucas, 

 Guanajuato, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas; casual in Ontario and 

 Indiana. 



Spizella brSweri Cassin. Brewer's Sparrow. [562.] 



Spizella breweri Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 40. ("Black 

 Hills,'' a few miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds mainly in the Transi- 

 tion Zone from southeastern British Columbia, west central Alberta, 

 east central Montana, and northwestern Nebraska south to southern 

 California, southern Arizona, and southwestern Texas; winters from 

 southern California and central Texas south through Lower Cali- 

 fornia and Mexico to Jalisco; accidental in Massachusetts. 



