White-crowned Sparrow © nhpbs.org

Vagrant to Greenland, Jamaica, Japan, United Kingdom.

Proposed subspecies aphaea (described from Idaho, presumably on migration) included within nominate.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• gambelii (Nuttall, 1840)   -  Breeds Alaska and western Canada (east to Nunavut and northern Manitoba, south to southern British Columbia, south-western Alberta and northern Saskatchewan. Non-breeding quarters in southern British Columbia and western USA (east to north-eastern Kansas, south to California) and Mexico (south to Nayarit, Aguascalientes and San Luis Potosí­).
• leucophrys (Forster, 1772)   -  Breeds in central and eastern Canada from northern Manitoba and northern Ontario east through northern and north-central Quebec to northern Labrador and northern Newfoundland. Winters in southern and south-eastern USA (southern from Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and North Carolina) and northern Mexico (south to Sonora).
• pugetensis Grinnell, 1928   -  Breeds extreme south-western Canada (south-western British Columbia) southern along Usouthern coast to north-western California. Non-breeding south to south-western California.
• nuttalli Ridgway, 1899   -  Coastal and central California (from Mendocino County south to Santa Barbara County).
• oriantha Oberholser, 1932   -  Breeds in mountains of south-western Canada (south-eastern British Columbia, southern Alberta and south-western Saskatchewan) and western USA (northern Idaho south through south-central Oregon to central and eastern California and south-central Nevada, east to Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and central-eastern Arizona). Non-breeding south-western USA (southern California and southern Arizona east to central Texas) and Mexico (south to southern Baja California, Jalisco, Michoacán, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí­ and Nuevo León).

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