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Genus PIPILO Vieillot. 



PipOo Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 32. Type, by monotypy, "Pinson aux 

 yeux rouges, Buff." = FringUla erythrophthalma Linn^us. 



Pipilo erythrophthaimus (Linn^us). 



Range. — Eastern North America from southern Canada to the 

 Gulf coast. 



a. Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linn^us). Towhee. [587.] 



FringUla erythrophthalma Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, ISO. 

 (Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds in Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones east of the Great Plains from southeastern Saskatchewan, south- 

 em Manitoba, southern Ontario, and southern Maine south to central Kansas 

 and northern Georgia; winters from southeastern Nebraska, the Ohio and 

 Potomac valleys (casually New England) to central Texas, the Gulf coast, and 

 southern Florida. 



6. Pipilo eiythrophthalmus dlleni Coues. White-eyed Towhee. [587o.] 



Pipilo aUeni Cotjes, Amer. Nat., V, Aug., 1871, 366 (note). (Dummitt, 

 20 miles south of New Smyrna, Florida.) 



Range. — Coast region from about Charleston, South Carolina, south- 

 ward, including Florida. 



Pipilo macuiatus Swainson. 



Range. — Western North America from British Columbia and 

 southern Saskatchewan to the highlands of Guatemala. 



a. [Pipilo maculatus maculatus. Extralimital.] 



b. Pipilo maculatus fircticus (Swainson). Arctic Towhee. [588.] 



Pyrgita {Pipilo) arctica Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Ara., II, 1831 (1832), 

 260, pll. 51, 52. (Carlton House, Saskatchewan.) 



Range. — Great Plains and Rocky Mountain region. Breeds in Transition 

 and Upper Sonoran zones from southern Alberta and Forks of Saskatchewan 

 south to west central Montana and northwestern Nebraska; occurs in migra- 

 tion in western Wyoming and northeastern Utah; winters from eastern Colo- 

 rado and southern Nebraska to southern Texas; casual in Illinois and Wis- 

 consin. 



