BIKDS OF NOKTH AND MIDBLE AMERICA. 



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Eastern United States and more southern British provinces, west to 

 the more eastern portions of the Great Plains; breeding from upper 

 Georgia and South Carolina, northwestern Florida (Wacissa River), 

 central Alabama and Mississippi, and central Texas (San Antonio), 

 northward to Maine, Ontario, Manitoba (Red River Valley, Winnipeg, 

 Qu' Appelle, etc.); wintering in more southern United States, from 

 Florida to Texas, northward to about 39°, occasionally farther. 



(?) IMotaciUa'] juncorum Gmelis, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 952 (based on Eusfi Warbler 



Latham, Gen. Synop., ii, pt. ii, 420). 

 {?) Sylvia juncorum liATBAU, Index Orn., i, 1790, .511. 

 Fringilla juncorum Suttall, jNIan. Orn. U. .S. and Canada, i, 1832, 499; 2d ed., i, 



1840, 577. 



Fringilla pusilla Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 121, pi. 16, fig. 2 (e. Pennsylvania; 



Peale'sMus.; habits, etc.).— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 229, pi. 139. 

 F.\ringilla] pusilla Lichtenstein, Yerz. Doubl., 1823, 25. 

 Emberiza pusilla (not of Pallas, 1826) Jardine, ed. "Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 



265, pi. 16, fig. 2. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 104; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 



1841, 77, pi. 164. 



Z. [pnotrichia] pusilla Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 373. 



[Zonotrichia] pusilla Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7396. 



Spizella pusilla Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 33. — Baied, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 473; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 358.— Sclater, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 114 (Pennsylvania) .—Dresser, Ibis, 1865,489 (San Antonio, 

 Texas, Dec, Mar.).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 179; Birds N. W., 1874, 

 148. — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7. — Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 5, pi. 27, fig. 2.— Maynard, Birds Florida, pt. iv, 

 1878, 97.— Beewstee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 121 (descr. young) ; 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 108 (w. North Carolina, breeding; song). — Brown, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 9 (Coosada, Alabama, breeding). — Gibbs, Bull. TJ. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 487, (Michigan, breeding n. to 43°).— 

 Slade, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 116 (nesting, etc.). — Ridgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 214.— Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882, 37 

 (Navarro Co., Texas, Oct. to Mar.). — Bicknell, Auk, ii, 1885, 145 (song). — 

 Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South Dakota, summer). — American 

 Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 563. — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 324 (Red R. Settlement and Red R. "Valley, w. Manitoba, breeding). — ■ 

 DuTCHER, Auk, iii, 1886, 442 (Setauket, Long Island, Jan. 31) . — Treat, Auk, 



decidedly toward the latter, but, as a rule, western specimens are so nearly identical 

 with eastern that they may without hesitation be referred to S. pusilla proper. Aver- 

 age measurements of nearly equal series from the two districts are as follows: 



