ORDER PASSERES. 253 



[B 384, C 196, R2S1, C292.] 



Geog. Dist. — South Atlantic and Gulf States to western Texas, 

 north to North Carolina and southern Illinois, and south to Panama. 



Genus SPOROPHILA Cabanis. 

 Sporophila Cabanis, Arch. f. Naturg. X. i. 1844, 291. 



602. Sporophila morelleti sharpei Lawk. 

 Sharpe's Seed-eater. 



Sporophila morelleti sharpei 'Lk.'^^. Auk, VI. Jan. 1889, 53. 

 [B 388, C 200, R 252, C 296.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southeastern Texas and adjacent parts of Mexico. 



Genus EUIiTHEIA Reichenbach. 



Euetheia Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. June i, 1850, pi. Ixxix. Type, 

 Emberiza lepida Linn. 



[603.] Euetheia bicolor (Linn.). 



Grassquit. 



Fringilla bicolor Linn. S. N. ed. 12, 1. 1766, 324. 

 Euetheia bicolor Gundlach, J. f. O. XXII. 1874, 312. 



[B— , C 201, R 253, C 297.] 



Geog. Dist. — West Indies. Accidental or casual in southern 

 Florida. 



[603.1.J Euetheia canora (Gmel.). 



Melodious Grassquit. 



Loxia canora Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 858. 



Euetheia canora Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. i860, 

 307- 



[B- C-,R- C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Cuba. Accidental in southern Florida (Sombrero 

 Key). 



