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Canyon Towhee
Melozone fusca (Swainson, 1827)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Aves - birds »  order Passeriformes - perching birds »  family Passerellidae - New World Sparrows »  genus Melozone

Scientific synonyms

Pipilo fuscus Swainson, 1827
Melozone fuscus (Swainson, 1827)

Other names

= Brown Towhee

Images

Melozone fusca - Canyon Towhee

Author: Karney, Lee

Included taxa

Number of records: 10

subspecies Melozone fusca campoi (R. T. Moore, 1949)
subspecies Melozone fusca fusca (Swainson, 1827)
subspecies Melozone fusca intermedia (Nelson, 1899)
subspecies Melozone fusca jamesi (C. H. Townsend, 1923)
subspecies Melozone fusca mesata (Oberholser, 1937)
subspecies Melozone fusca mesoleuca (S. F. Baird, 1854)
subspecies Melozone fusca perpallida (van Rossem, 1934)
subspecies Melozone fusca potosina (Ridgway, 1899)
subspecies Melozone fusca texana (van Rossem, 1934)
subspecies Melozone fusca toroi (R. T. Moore, 1942)

Links and literature

EN AOU Checklist of North and Middle American Birds 2013 [http://checklist.aou.org/], North American Classification Committee (NACC) [as Melozone fusca]
Data retrieved on: 26 April 2013
EN Bird Life 3 [22721331]

Bird Life [http://www.birdlife.org] [as Melozone fusca (Swainson, 1827)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2018
EN Gill F., Donsker D. & Rasmussen P. (eds): IOC World Bird List 11.1 [http://www.worldbirdnames.org/] [as Melozone fusca (Swainson, 1827)]
Data retrieved on: 4 December 2021
EN del Hoyo J., Elliott A., Sargatal J., Christie D.A. & de Juana E. (eds.).: Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) Alive [https://www.hbw.com/], Lynx Edicions, Barcelona [as Melozone fusca Swainson, 1827]
Data retrieved on: 27 November 2018
CZ Hudec K. et al. (2003): Soustava a české názvosloví ptáků světa, Muzeum Komenského v Přerově. 462 pp. [as Pipilo fuscus Swainson, 1827]
EN Clements, J. F.: eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world 6.7, Cornell Lab of Ornithology [as Melozone fusca]
Data retrieved on: 9 April 2013

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