364 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Mountain districts of southern Lower California (alono- water 

 courses of Comondu Canon, latitude 30^: Los Dolores). 



Melospiza famata rivvktris Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. St-i., 2d ser.', i, Sept. 29, LS88, 

 197 (Comondu, Lower California; coll. W. E. Bryant); ii, 1889, 22 (descr. 

 nest and eggs). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, 1889, 13; Abridged Check List, 1889, and 2d ed., 1896, no. 581r/.— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Ain. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 604. 



3felospiza melodia rkmlaris Oberholser, Auk, xvi. Apr., 1899, 183. 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA HEERMANNI (Baird). 

 HEERHANNS SONG SPARROW. 



Similar to JI. e. melodia but smaller and coloration much dai'ke-r 

 and browner, the black streaks on back, etc., averaging broader, and 

 streaks on chest, etc., darker (black or brownish black in sununer); 

 young- similar to that of J/, c. melodia but deeper tawny brown above 

 with black streaks on l)ack broader, the under parts more or less tinged 

 with brownish butf, especially on chest, where the duskv streaks are 

 broader. 



AdnJi mcde.—\jQ.ng\h (skins), 129.5-1-100.27 (144.27); wing, 61.47- 

 71.12 (64.77); tail, 59.69-7o.87 (64.26); exposed culmen, 11.48-13.46 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.38 (7.62); tarsus. 21.34-24.13 

 (22.35); middle toe, 14.99-16.76 (16.00).^ 



Adult female.— l^^wgih (skins), 138.68-143.26 (140.97); wing, 60.96- 

 63.75 (62.74); tail, 57.15-65.53 (62.74); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.70 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.89 (8.13); tarsus, 20.32-22.86 

 (21.84); middle toe. 14.99-15.75 (15.49).' 



Central valleys of California, including lower levels of the Sacra- 

 mento and San Joaquin basins. 



(?) ZoiiolrirJivi fascidtii (not Fringllln fnsciata Gmelin) Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 49, part (California). 



Melospiza heermanni Baird, Uep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 478 (Tejon \\dley, 

 California;^ U. S. Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 (Birds X. Am.), atlas, pi. 70, fig. 1; 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 364.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 

 192, part (Fort Tejon).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 212, part. 



\_Zonotrichia'\ heeniHivv! Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7389. 



[Mclospizd vu'lodln.] Var. lieermannu Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



Mdosplza melodia . . . var. heermanni Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169rf. 



\_Melospiza melodia] c. Iii'ennanni Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 139, part (synonymy). 



Mfiospiza melodia, var. heermanni Baird, Brewer, and Riik^way. Hist. X. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 24, part. 



Melospiza melodia heermanni 'Ri'DG'^' AY, l^nW. Essex lust., Oct., 1S74, 171 (Sacra- 

 mento, California, breeding). 



' Seventeen specimens. 



^ Four sjiecimens. 



^A winter specimen; no. 6227, adult male. 



