Canyon Towhee

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Passerellidae

Genus

Melozone

eBird Code

cantow

Subspecies (10)

• Melozone fusca campoi

  highlands of east-central Mexico (Hidalgo, adjacent Puebla, and Veracruz)

• Melozone fusca fusca

  mountains of western Mexico (Nayarit, Jalisco, and Colima to Distrito Federal)

• Melozone fusca intermedia

  semiarid northwestern Mexico (southern Sonora to northern Sinaloa)

• Melozone fusca jamesi

  Isla Tiburón (northern Sea of Cortés off Sonora)

• Melozone fusca mesata

  southeastern Colorado to northeastern New Mexico and far northwestern Oklahoma

• Melozone fusca mesoleuca

  Arizona and New Mexico to western Texas, Sonora, and northwestern Chihuahua

• Melozone fusca perpallida

  mountains of western Mexico (Sierra Madre Occidental)

• Melozone fusca potosina

  highlands of northern Mexico (Coahuila to northeastern Jalisco and southwestern Tamaulipas)

• Melozone fusca texana

  highlands of western and central Texas to northern Mexico (northwestern Coahuila)

• Melozone fusca toroi

  south-central Mexico (Tlaxcala to Veracruz, Puebla, and northern Oaxaca)