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Rocky Mountain district of United States and British Columbia, 

 breeding from the more eastern ranges in Colorado, etc. , west to the 

 White Mountains in southeastern California, mountains of northeast- 

 ern California (Lassen and Modoc counties), eastern Oregon (near 

 Camp Harnejr), etc.; north to interior of British Columbia (Nelson, 

 etc.); during migration south to New Mexico and Arizona, west to 

 Los Angeles County, California (casual?), and western slopes of Sierra 

 Nevada; east to western Kansas, etc. 



Passerella schistacea Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 490, part ("tj'pe 

 from head waters of the Platte," Colorado; U. S. Nat. Mus. ) , 92.5, 927 (Fort 

 Bridger, Wyoming); ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 69, fig. 3; Cat. N. 

 Am. Bird.s 1859, no. 376.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 223 (figs, of head, bill, 

 and feet). — SN0^^•, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7 (1 spec). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 EiDGivAy, Hist. X. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 28, fig. 9.— Ridgnvav, Orn. 40th 

 Parallel, 1877, 486 (Carson City, Nevada, Mar.; Wahsatch ilts., Utah, 

 breeding). 



I'assereVn Hiacu, var. Rrhlslaceii .Vllen, Bull. ilus. Comp. ZooL, iii, July, 1872, 168 

 (Ogden, Utah).— RiDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 183 (Colorado); vii, 

 187."i, 37 (Nevada).— Henshaw, Ann. Rep. AVheeler's Surv., 1877, 1318. 



Pdxsa-elld iliaai var. schixlareti Ridgivay, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 191. 



[J'uxsi-rella iliacii.] Var. schislacea Coves, Key N. .Im. Birds, 1872, 147, part. 



P. [asserella] ilinca schistacea Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 174; Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 434. 



Pdsxerella iliacn schixtacea Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 22 (up. 

 Humboldt Valley, Nevada, Sept. ) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 181; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 235c.— Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 7 

 (crit.) . — CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 284. — American Orxitholoqists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 585c. — Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 220 (e. base Mount Lassen, n. California, breeding). — Bendire, Auk, 

 V, 1889, 113 (breeding range; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Mereiam, North 

 Am. Fauna, no. 3, 1890, 97 (foot of San Francisco Mt., Arizona, Sept. 29). — 

 Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 478 (w. Kansas, rare winter visitant). — Fisher, 

 N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 102 (Panamint Mts., California, Mar.; White 

 Mts., California, July).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893,51, 64 

 (Nelson, int. British Columbia). — Cooke, Birds Colorado, 1897, 107 (rare 

 summer resid. ); Bull. Col. Agri. Coll., 1898, 167 (Florissant, Colorado, July; 

 near Glenwood Spring, Grand River, June). — Merrill, Auk, xv, 1898, 17 

 (Fort Sherman, n. w. Idaho, May) . — Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 

 1898, 40 (Los Angeles, California, 1 spec. Dec. 14, 1898). 



Paaserella itiaca, y. schislcwea Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, March 21, 1879, 

 418 (Murphys, Calaveras Co., California, Jan. 4). 



P.[assereUa] i.l/iara] schistacea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 386. 



Passerella, townsendi, var. schistacea Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 56, pi. 28, fig. 9.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 

 120 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). 



Passerella townsendii . . var. schistacea CoueS, Check List, 1873, no. 189a,, part. — 

 Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873" (1874), 118 (s. of Apache, 

 Arizona, Sept.); Annot. List Birds Utah, 1874, 6; Zool. Exp. W. 100th 

 Merid., 1875, 293 (Provo, Utah, July; s. of Apache, Arizona). 



Passerella townsendi . . var. schistacea Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 15 (Provo, Utah, July). 



[Passerella townsendii var. schistacea^ b. schistacea Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 162, 

 part (synonymy). 



