BIRDS OF NORTH AND :MIDDLE AMERICA. 859 



Rocky Mountain district of the United States west to and including- 

 the Sierra Nevada, in California; north to eastern Oregon, southern 

 Idaho, and southern Montana; south in winter to western Texas (Fort 

 Clark, etc.) and northern ^Mexico (States of Coahuila. Chihuahua, and 

 Souora). 



Zonotrichki fasciata (not FringlUafaffclata Gmelin) Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., i, 1847, 49, part (New Mexico). 



Mtiospiza fasciata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis., xii, 1888, 701. part (Fort Kla- 

 math, e. Oregon; Pine Grove, etc., Wvoniing; Sacramento, California). 



Melospiza melodia (not Friagilla melodia Wilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 477, part (Boca Grande, ^lexico), 927 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming) ; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 16 (Boca Grande); Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 363, part.— Coves, Ibis, 1865, 165, in text (Fort Whip- 

 ple, Arizona). — Allex, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 149 (Colorado City, 

 Colorado), 157 (South Park, Colorado), 168 (Ogden, Utah), 177 (Ogden, 

 Utah, etc.). — Holdex, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 200 (Sherman, 

 AVyoming). 



Melospiza fallax (not Zonutrichia falla.c Baird, 1854) Baird, Rep. Pacific K. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 481, part (Fort Thorn, New Mexico; Fort Tejon, California); 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 367, part.— Xaxtvs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, California).— (?) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 113 

 (California) .—Coves, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 88 (Fort Whipple, Ari- 

 zona).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 215, part (inch fig. of head).— Stevenson, 

 Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1871 (1872), 465 (Green R., etc., Wyo- 

 ming).— :Merriam, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872 (1873), 682 (Ogden, 

 Utah; North Fork and Fort Hall, s. e. Idaho). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 WAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 27, fig. 10 (Nevada). 



^Melospiza melodia.] Yar. fallax Coveh, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139, part. 



Melospiza melodia . . . var. fallax Coves, Check List, 1873, no. 169f(, part. — Ridg- 

 WAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 183 (Colorado).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. 

 Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 62 (Denver, Colorado), 81 (Fort Garland, Colo- 

 rado), 117 (Fort Bayard, New Mexico); Annot. List Birds Utah, 1874, 6; 

 Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 281, part (localities in Utah, Colorado, 

 New Mexico, and Arizona). 



[Melospiza melodia] \ar. fallax Hensiiaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 299 

 (crit.). 



Melospiza melodia, var. fd/ax Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 22, part.— Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 340 (Fort 

 Bridger, Wyoming).— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 119 (Camp 

 Harney, e. Oregon, resident). 



\_Melospiza melodia] b. fallax Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139, part (synonymy). 



Melospiza melodia fallax Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 19, 20 ( We.st 

 Humboldt and Ruby Mts., Nevada). 



M.[elospiza] melodia fallax Hexshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 299 

 (Carson, Nevada). 



Melospiza fasciata, y. fallax Ridgway, Field and Forest, ii, ^May, 1877, 198 (Colo- 

 rado); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 66 (Calaveras Co., California).— 

 Ridgway and Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 417 (Marysville and 

 Sacramento, California, winter) . 



[Melospiza fasciata.] y. fallax Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 482, 483, 

 excl. syn., part (localities in Nevada and Utah) . 



Melospiza fasciata, y. fallax Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii, 3Iay, 1877, 198 (Colo- 

 rado) . 



