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southern portion of Mexican plateau (states of Puebla, Mexico, Tlax- 

 cala, Hidalgo, etc.), and from the Pacific coast (north of San Francisco 

 Bay) to eastern edge of the Great Plains, plains of the Saskatchewan, 

 etc. ; in winter throughout valleys of entire west (including southern 

 California and Lower California) and whole of Mexico, excepting the 

 tierra caliente, and to Guatemala (Hacienda Chancol, Jan.). 



Passeradus alaudinus Bonaparte, Compt. Eend., xxxvii, Dec, 1853, 918 (Cali- 

 fornia) ; Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854, 18.— BAiRD,Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 446; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 4, fig.l; Eep. U. S.and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 15 (Brownsville, Texas; Tamaulipas) ; Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 335.— Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858,803 (La 

 Parada, Oaxaca) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 112 (n. California; Nebraska; Oax- 

 aca). — Cooper and Suckley, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 199 

 (Coast of Washington) . — Sclater and Salvix, Ibis, 1860, 398 (Duefias, Gua- 

 temala) . — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 487 (near San Antonio, Texas) . — Coues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 84 (Port Whipple, Arizona). — D all and Bannister, 

 Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 284 (Sitka and Yukon E., Alaska). — Elliot, 

 Illustr. New and Unflg. N. Am. Birds, 1869, pi. 13.— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 

 Soe. N. H., i, 1869, 552 (Vera Cruz, winter).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 181.— 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7. — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 24, fig. 11. 



[ZonotricMa] alaudma Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 95, no. 7411. 



Zonotrichia alaudma Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 51 (crit. ). 



Passerculvs savanna, var. alaudinus Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 537.— Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 21 (Tehuan- 

 tepec City, Oaxaca, Nov.). 



Passerculus savanna . . . var. ciZawrfmus Eidgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 

 182 (Colorado) .—Henshaw, Eep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 

 61 (Denver, Colorado), 79 (Garland, Colorado), 111 (Mount Graham, Apache, 

 and Camp Grant, Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 254 (localities 

 in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona). 



Passerculus savanna alaudinus Eidgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 11, 19 

 (Carson and West Humboldt Mts., Nevada). — Coues and Streets, Bull. V. S. 

 Nat. Mus., no. 7,1877,9 (EioSanlgnacio, Sonora). — Mbarns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 164 (Fort Klamath, e. Oregon). — Eobeets and Benseh, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 14 (Grant and Traverse counties, Minnesota, 

 breeding).— Finsch, Journ. fiirOrn., 1883, 273 (Portage Bay, Alaska, May). 



Passerculus sandvichensis, y. alaudinus Eidgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 

 198 (Colorado). 



Passerculus sandvichensis ... a. alaudinus Eidgway, Orn. 40th parallel, 1877, 464 

 (moist valleys and marshes, Nevada and Utah, breeding; habits, song, etc.). 



Passerculus sandvicenais, y. alaudinus Eidgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, April, 

 1878, 66 (centr. California); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 415 (do.). 



P.[asserculus'] savanna alaudinus Henshaw, Orn. Eep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 293 

 (Washoe Lake, Nevada, and northward, breeding). 



Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 

 1880, 178; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 193i.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 151 (Chugachik Bay, Cook Inlet, Chamisso I., and Kadiak, 

 Alaska, breeding).— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 70 (coast of 

 Bering Sea, Yukon district, etc.) .— Bblding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 

 350 (La Paz, Lower California, winter) .— Goss, Auk, iii, 1886, 114 (McPher- 

 son Co., Kansas, Oct.) .—Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 36 

 (summer resid. on coast) . 



