272 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMEBICAN BIEDS. 



a. Aimophila ruficeps ru&ceps (Cassin). Bufous-crowned Sparrow. [580.] 



Ammodromus ruficeps Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1852, 

 184. (Calaveras River, near Stockton, California.) 



Range. — Upper Sonoran Zone of California west of the Sierra Nevada from 

 Marin and Placer counties to San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California, 

 and Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz islands. 



b. Aimophila ruficeps scotti (Sennett). Scott's Sparrow. [580a.] 



Peuccea rufixxps scottii Sennett, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 42. (Pinal Co., 

 Arizona.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and southwestern 

 Texas south to Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango; casual in Colorado. 



c. Aimophila ruficeps eremceca (N. C. Brown). Rock Sparrow. [5806.] 



Peuccea ruficeps eremoeca Brown, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, Jan., 

 1882, 26. (Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma, and from Cook 

 County, Texas, southwest to the Pecos River; winters south to Puebla and 

 Vera Cruz. 



d. Aimophila ruficeps sororia Ridgway. Laguna Sparrow. [580c.] 



Aimophila ruficeps sororia Ridgway, Auk, XV, July, 1898, 226. (Vic- 

 toria Mountains, Lower California.) 



Range. — Mountains of Cape Region of Lower California. 



Genus MELOSPIZA Baird. 



Melospiza Baibd, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 476. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Fringilla melodia Wilson. 



Melospiza melodia (Wilson). 



Range. — North America from Alaska and northern Quebec south 

 to southern border of Mexican tableland. 



u. Melospiza melodia melodia (Wilson). Song Sparrow. [581.] 



Fringilla melodia Wilson, Amer. Orn., II, 1810, 125, pi. xvi, fig. 4. 

 (Eastern United States.) 



Range. — North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Breeds in Cana- 

 dian, Transition, and Upper Austral zones from southern Mackenzie (Great 



