Richard Klim
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American Tree Sparrow
Those were my thoughts exactly, Joe. Despite the new account for Spizelloides noting that "S. arborea is not closely related to true Spizella", the sequence remains unchanged: Spizelloides immediately precedes Spizella.Despite the newly recognized close relationship of the American Tree Sparrow to the Fox Sparrow/Junco group, it does not seem to have moved there. Instead, if I read it correctly, it remains in its old position at the beginning of the Spizella. Am I missing something?
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