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Melospiza melodia morphna Oberholser. Rusty Song Sparrow. [581e.] 



Melospiza melodia morphna Oberholser, Auk, XVI, No. 2, April, 1S99, 

 183. New name for M.fasciata guttata (Nuttall), nee FrittgUla guttata 

 ViEiLLOT. (No locality = near Fort Vancouver, Washington.) 



Range. — Glacier Bay, Alaska, southeast nearly throughout British Colum- 

 bia and south through western Washington and Oregon (to Jackson County 

 and Goldbeach, Curry County). Scatters somewhat in winter, casually as far 

 as Riverside County, California. 



Melospiza melodia cleonensis McGregor. Mendocino Song Sparrow. 



[581p.] 



Melospiza melodia cleonensis McGregor, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, I, 

 No. 5, Sept. 15, 1899, 87. (Westport, Mendocino County, California.) 



Range. — The narrow coast belt of northwestern California from Del Norte 

 County to Mendocino County; casually to Olema, Marin County, and to 

 Curry County, Oregon. 



Melospiza melodia samuelis (Baird). Samuels's Song Sparrow. [581c?.] 



Ammodromus samuelis Baird, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VI, Aug., 

 1858, 379. (Petaluma, California.) 



Range. — Pacific slope of middle California from southern Mendocino 

 County to the Sur River, Monterey County, and east to Solano and Yolo 

 counties, Berkeley, and the Santa Clara Valley.^ 



Melospiza melodia maxillaris Grinnell. Suisim Song Sparrow. [581s.] 



Melospiza melodia maxillaris Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., V, No. 3, 

 April 9, 1909, 265. (Tule marsh west of Suisun, Solano County, 

 California.) 



Range. — -Lowlands surrounding Suisun Bay, west-central California, from 

 Benicia and Port Costa east to the vicinity of the confluence of the Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin rivers. 



Melospiza melodia maQliardi Grinnell. Modesto Song Sparrow. [581?/.] 



Melospiza melodia mailliardi Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., VII, 

 No. 5, Feb. 18, 1911, 197. (Rancho Dos Rios, near Modesto, Stanislaus 

 County, California.) 



1 Grinnell limits M. m. samuelis to the salt marshes on the northern side of 

 San Francisco Bay and the southern side of San Pablo Bay, while the birds to 

 the north are regarded as M. m. gouldi Baird (Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, 

 IX, 1858, 479) and those to the south as M. m. santaecrucis Grinnell (Condor, 

 III, No. 4, July 15, 1901, 92). 



