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Spordphila morell6ti (Bonaparte) 



Range. — Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, Texas, south through 

 eastern Mexico to Costa Rica. 



a. [Sporophila morelleti morelleti. Extralimital.] 



6. Sporophila morelleti sMrpei Lawrence. Sharpe's Seedeater. [602.] 



Sporophila morelleti sharpei Lawrence, Auk, VI, Jan., 1889, 53. (Lom- 

 ita, Texas.) 



Range.— Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Nuevo Leon and Tamauli- 

 pas, Mexico. 



[Genus TIARIS Swainson. 



Tiaris Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 438. Type, by 

 monotypy, Tiaris pusiUus Swainson. 



Tidris bicolor (Linn^us). Grassquit. [603.] 



Fringilla hicolor Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 324. (Bahama 

 Islands.) 



Range. — Bahamas; accidental at Miami, Florida. 



Tiaris canora (Gmelin). Melodious Grassquit. [603.1.] 



Looda canora Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 858. ("In nova 

 = Cuba.) 



Range. — Cuba; accidental on Sombrero Key, Florida.] 



Genus SPIZA Bonaparte. 



Spiza Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, i, 1824, 45. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Emberiza americana Gmelin (Bonaparte, 1827). 



Spiza americSna (Gmelin). Dickcissel. [604.] 



Emberiza americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 872. (New York.) 



Range. — Eastern North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds chiefly in Austral zones from northeastern Wyoming, north- 



