370 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Coast slope of central California (except salt-water marshes of San 

 Francisco Bay), from Santa Cruz County to Humboldt County (north, 

 at least in winter, to Humboldt Bay). 



Ammodromus scrmueUs Baird, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, Aug., 1858, 379 (Peta- 



luma, Sonoma Co., California; U. S. Nat. Mus.); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 



ix, 1858, 455; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 71, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, no. 343.— Coopee, Orn. Cal., 1870, 191. 

 [^Ammodromus'] samnelis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7417. 

 Melospiza melodia, var. samuelis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, 



ii, 1874, 26, pi. 27, fig. 7. 

 IMelospiza vieloda] var. samuelis Hexshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, July, 1879, 



157, 160 (crit.); Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298, 299 (crit.). 

 Melospiza melodia samuelis Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1883, 328. — 



Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 183. 

 M.lelospiza] fasciata samuelis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Mar. 27,1880, 



3; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 431, part. 

 Melospiza fasciata samuelis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180; 



Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 231f.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 249, 



part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 581(7, 



part.— TOWN.SEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 219 (Eel R., Humboldt Co., 



California, 1 spec. Dec). 

 M.lelosjjiza] /.[asciata'] samuelis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 372, part. 

 [Melospiza fasciata.'] Subsp. y. Melospiza samuelis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xii, 1888, 705, part (Oakland, Presidio, and Nicasio, California). 

 Melospiza gouldii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 479 (California; U. S. 



Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 70, fig. 2; Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, no. 365.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 113 (CaUfornia).— 



Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 212, in text under M. heerinanni. 

 [Zo7ioirichia] gouldii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 64, no. 7390. 

 [Melospiza melodia.] Var. gouldii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 

 Melospiza melodia . . . var. gouldii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169^. 

 [3felospiza melodia'] d. gouldii Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139 (synonymy). 

 Melospiza melodia gouldii jNIcGregor, Bull. Coop. Orn. Club, i, no. 5, Sept. to Oct. 



(pub. Sept.), 1899, 87, in text. 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA PUSILLULA Ridgway. 

 ALAMEDA SONG SPARROW. 



Most like 3f. c. samuelis., but still smaller, the wings and tail 

 decidedly so; coloration uiuch less rusty, the general color of upper 

 parts olive-grayish, the black dorsal streaks not distinctly, if at all, 

 margined with rusty ])rown. the lateral crown-stripes and wings less 

 distinctly 'ruf escent, under parts more heavily streaked (streaks usu- 

 ally wholly black) and flanks paler fulvous: under parts usually more 

 or le.ss tinged with yellowish. Young much paler and grayer than that 

 of M. c. samfteh's, with the broad black streaks on back and .scajnilars 

 much more strongly contrasted with the ground color: ground color 

 of under parts dull yellowish white or pale yellowish bull', without 

 brownish tinge on breast or sides. 



