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COTURNICULUS SAVANNARUM AUSTRALIS (Mayn.). 

 Fringilla passerina Wils., 3, 1811, p. 76, pi. 24, fig. 5. Nomen praeoccupatum. 

 M. C. Z. No. 67857. Very probably Wilson's type. 



Spizella passerina passerina (Bechst.). 



Fringilla socialis Wils., 2, 1810, p. 127, pi. 16, fig. 5. 



M. C. Z. No. 67858. The chestnut crown has the dusky spots of the 

 winter plumage, similar to Wilson's figure. A possible type. 



Spizella pusilla pusilla (Wils.). 



Fringilla pusiHa Wils., 2, 1810, p. 127, pi. 16, fig. 5. 

 M. C. Z. No. 67859. Very likely the type. 



Melospiza melodia melodia (Wils.). 



■Fringilla nielodia Wils., 2, 1810, p. 12.5, pi. 16, fig. 4. 



M. C. Z. No. 67860. This specimen is one of those large, heavily 

 marked Song Sparrows, of a pronounced rufous tint, such as pass 

 through eastern Massachusetts in small numbers in the spring, along 

 with the Fox Sparrows. It agrees well with Wilson's figure, if some 

 allowance is made for adapting the bird to its place on the plate. Mr. 

 Outram Bangs (Proc. N. E. Zool. Club, 4, 1912, p. 86) is quite confident 

 that it is the individual figured by Wilson. 



Melospiza georgiana (Lath.). 

 Fringilla palustris Wils., 3, 181 1, p. 49, pi. 22, fig. 1. 



M. C. Z. No. 67861. In the same plumage as the one described and 

 figured by Wilson, with a great deal of blackish colour on the nape. 

 Probably the type. 



