Editing Canyon towhee (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Canyon towhee
| image = Pipilo fuscus2.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year= 2021 |title= ''Melozone fusca'' |page= e.T22721331A138530434 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22721331A138530434.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Melozone
| species = fusca
| authority = ([[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1827)
| synonyms = *''Melozone fuscus''<br>*''Pipilo fuscus''
| range_map = Melozone fusca map.svg

}}
[[File:CanyonTowhee-1MAY2017.jpg|alt=Canyon Towhee|thumb|226x226px|Canyon towhee in Cochise County, Arizona]]

The '''canyon towhee''' ('''''Melozone fusca''''') is a [[bird]] of the family [[Passerellidae]].  Until 1989, the canyon towhee and the [[California towhee]] were considered to be a single species which was called the '''brown towhee'''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=American Ornithologists' Union |title=Thirty-seventh Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds |journal=Auk |date=1989 |volume=109 |pages=532–538}}</ref>