BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 357 



Antonio, Texas, winter) .-Dwight, Auk, x, 1893, 12 (Prince Edward I 

 breednig).— Xl-ttixg, Bull. Lab. X. H. Univ. Iowa, ii, no. 3, 1893, 276 (Lower 

 Saskatchewan, abundant).— Ulkey and Wallace, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895 

 155 (Waba,sh, Indiana, breeding).— Thorxe, Auk, xii, 1895, 217 (Fort Keo<^h' 

 Montana, Apr. 17).-Hadley, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1897, 190 (Richmond,' 

 ^^ayne Co., Indiana, resident).— Bi-tler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 967 (breed- 

 ing in Dearborn, Brown, Monroe, Putnam, Vigo, Sullivan, and Knoxi 

 counties northward).— Allisox, Auk, xvi, 1899, 269 (Madison Co., Missis- 

 sippi, breeding?). 

 M.[elospizn] fasclafa CofES, Key X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884. 371— Ridgwvy 

 Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 431. ^ • » 



FringUla melodia Wilsox, Am. Orii., ii, 1810, 125, pi. 16, fig. 4 (Canada to 

 (Georgia ).—BoxAPARTE, Synopsis, 1828, 108.— ArnuBox, Orn. Biog., i 1831 

 125; V, 1839, 507, pi. 25; Synopsis, 1839, 120; Birds Am., oct. ed.? iii^ 1841,' 

 147, pi. 189.— XrxTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 486. 

 F.[nngiUa-\ melodia Maximiliax, Journ. fiir Orn.. vi, 1858, 275 (Pennsvlvania 

 etc.). "^ ' 



Emheriza? melodia Jardixe. ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 269, pi. 16, fig. 4. 

 Zonotrichia melodia Boxaparte, (feog. and Coinp. List, 1838, 31.' 

 Z.[onotrichia'] ynelodia Ghay , Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 373. 



[Zoiiotrickia] melodia Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i.'l850, 478, jjart- Grvv Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7387. 

 Melospiza melodia Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 477, part (excl. spec 

 from Boca Grande, Mexico); Cat. X. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 363— Scl^ter 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 113 (Philadelphia; Canada).-BLAKisTox, Ibis, 1862 

 7 (Forks of the Saskatchewan, Apr. 23).— Allex, Bull. Mus. Comp.'zool ' 

 11, 1871, 279 (e. Florida, winter); iii, 1872, 177, part (e. Kansas).— Coues' 

 Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1871, 22 (Fort Macon, Xorth Carolina breed- 

 ing); Check List, 1873, no. 169; Birds N. W., 1874, 138, part; Bull. U 8 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 596 (Turtle Mt., Xorth' Dakota).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 19, pi 27 ficr 

 6.— Merriam, Am. Xat., viii, 1874, 87 (St. Johns R., Florida).— lIxg- 

 Dox, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 8 (resident); Revised List, 1879 10 (do ) — 

 Brewster, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 120 (descr. young). -Merrill 

 Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., i, 1878, 127 (Fort Brown, Texas, Dec, Feb.) -Browx' 

 Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 8 (Coosada, Alabama, winter). -Me arxs' 

 Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 35 (Hudson R. Vallev, resident) — M^ynard' 

 Birds E. X. Am., 1881, 115. 

 lMelospiza'\ melodia Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 

 M.ielospiza-\ melodia Xelsox, Bull. Essex Inst., viii,' 1876, 109, 152 (n e Illinois 



Mar. to Oct.). 

 Melospiza melodia melodia Oberholser, Auk, xvi, Apr., 1899, 183. 

 [Melospiza melodia-] var. melodia Baird, Brewer, and Ridg^wy Hist X \m 



Birds, ii, 1874, 18. 

 [Melospiza melodia] a. melodia Coues, Birds X. W.. 1874, 138 (synonymy) 

 M.[elospiza:\ meloda Hexshaw, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, Julv, 1879," 156 160 



(crit.).— Coues, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 97, in text " 

 Melospiza meloda Coues (in McChesney), Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 V, 1879, 76 (Fort Sisseton, South Dakota).— Roberts and Bexxer, Bull. Xutt.' 

 Orn. Club, V, 1880, 14 (Grant and Traverse counties, :\Iinnesota, breeding) — 

 Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. X. H., xxii, 1883, 376 (Gut of Canso and Gaspe 

 Gulf St. Lawrence). ' 



'From my own experience I consider the last doul^tful; certainly the species does 

 not breed as far south in Knox County as the Ohio and Mississippi' Railroad. 



