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Proposed subspecies taverneri (described from north-eastern Alberta, in western Canada) and nesophilus (from Newfoundland, in eastern Canada) considered clinal variants within nominate subspecies, and rubidus (from western Washington, in north-western USA) a synonym of californicus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• purpureus (Gmelin, 1789)   -  Breeds southern Canada (except south-west) and north-eastern USA; migrates mostly to south-eastern USA.
• californicus (Baird, SF, 1858)   -  Breeds south-western Canada (British Columbia) southern along Pacific coast of western USA to California (Cascade Mts and western Sierra Nevada). Non-breeding also to south-eastern California, Arizona and extreme north-western Mexico (extreme north-western Baja California).

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