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JJ. Larger, the wing averaging 72.14 or more in male, 67.06 or more in 

 female; general color of upper parts sooty brown or grayish; streaks 

 on chest, etc., sooty brown or blackish brown, or if approaching 

 chestnut the upper parts grayish and the wing more than 76.20. 

 g. Smaller (wing averaging 72.14 in male, 67.06 in female), with much 

 shorter bill (exposed culmen averaging 12.45 in male, 12.19 in 

 female. (Sitkan district, Alaska. ) .Melospiza cinerea rufina (p. 878. ) 

 gg. Larger (wing averaging more than 76.20 in male, 71.12 or more in 

 female), with longer bill (exposed culmen averaging 14.22 or 

 more in male, 13.72 or more in female). 

 /(.Smaller (wing averaging not more than 83.06 in male, 78.49 in 

 female), darker and browner, the general color above deep olive- 

 slaty, with streaks on chest, etc., sepia brown or blackish brown. 

 i. Smaller and darker, with streaks on chest, etc., blackish brown; 

 wing averaging 72.39 in male, 68.83 in female; exposed culmen 

 averaging 13.21 in male, 12.95 in female. (Coast of middle 

 Alaska, from Cross Sound to Cook Inlet.) 



Melospiza cinerea caurina ( p. 375. ) 



//. Larger and paler, with streaks on chest, etc. , sepia brown; wing 



avei'aging 81.79 in male, 78.49 in female; exposed culmen 



averaging 15.49 in male, 14.73 in female. (Island of Kadiak, 



and opposite coast of peninsula, Alaska. ) 



Melospiza cinerea insignis ( p. 376. ) 

 [Intermediate in size and coloration hetwceii -V. <■. runnna and 

 J/. ('. imigiii-i. (Coasts of Kenai peninsula. Cook Inlet to 

 Prince William Sound. ) .Melospiza cinerea kenaiensis (p. 375. ) 

 hh. Larger (wing averaging 85.09 in male, 81.03 in female), paler, and 

 grayer, the general color above gray or brownish gray, with 

 streaks on chest, etc., hair brown or light chestnut-brown. 

 (Aleutian Islands, Alaska, east to the Shumagins and lower por- 

 tion of Alaska peninsula. ) Melospiza cinerea cinerea ( p. 377. ) 



I)li. Chest not distinctly, if at all, streaked. (Eastern North America.) 



Melospiza georgiana ( ]i. 382. ) 



(Ki. Ninth primary longer than fourth (sometimes equal to fifth); malar region and 



chest buff, the latter aliruptly defined against white of throat and breast and 



streaked with lilack; rump distint'tly streaked with l)lack. (North America in 



general. ) Melospiza lincolnii ( j). 379. ) 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA MELODIA ( Wilson i. 

 SONG SPARROW. 



Adults {seiVt'''< clikc). — Pileiini biowi) (uuinimy brown to iilniost 

 Iniriit umber), narrowly .•^treakiHl with black and divided by a narrow 

 median stripe of gray, this also narrowly streaked witli t)laek: hind- 

 neck brownish gray, more or less streaked or washed with brown; scap- 

 ulars and interscapulars black medially, producing streaks of greater 

 or less width, these margnuMl hiterally with brown {like color of 

 pileum). the edges of the rectrices, more or less broadly, brownish 

 gra}'; rump olive-grayish, more or less streaked Avitli bi-own (some- 

 times with blackish also); upper tail-coverts broAvner than rump and 

 more distinctly streaked; tail 1)rown (l>rocco]i brown to russet brown), 



