372 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Melospiza inelodia deonensis 'SI.cG'rego'r, Bull. Coop. Orn. Club., i, no. 5, Sept. to 

 Oct. (pub. Sept.), 1899, 87 (Westport, Mendocino Co., n. California; coll. 

 R. C. McGregor). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA MORPHNA ( Oberholser) . 

 RUSTY SONG SPARROW. 



Similar in coloration to M. c. cleonensis^ but much larger and colors 

 more uniform above, the rusty brown or chestnut streaks on liack, etc., 

 less strongly contrasted with the rusty olive ground color and the black 

 mesial streaks less distinct (often obsolete); under parts with the chest- 

 nut streaks on chest, etc., usually without blackish shaft-streaks, and the 

 flanks olivaceous rather than tawny. Young, slightly rufe_scent bister 

 brown above, the back streaked with blackish; beneath dull whitish or 

 very pale buffy grayish, the chest, sides, and flanks more or less 

 tinged with bufl'y or pale fulvous and streaked with sooty brownish. 



Adult maZd.— Length (skins), 144. 53-16^1:. 08 (152.65); wing, 64.77- 

 71.37 (67.82); tail, 60. 71-72.90 (66.04); exposed culmen, 11.94-13.72 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 21.59-23.62 

 (22.86); middle toe, 16.00-18.03 (17.02).^ 



Adult femcde.— Length (skins), 141.73-157.23 (149.61); wing, 62.23- 

 68.58 (65.02); tail, 57.91-67.82 (62.99); exposed culmen, 11.43-13.21 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.62 (7.11): tarsus, 21.84-23.62 

 (22.61); middle toe, 14.99-17.78 (16.51).' 



Breeding from extreme southern portion of Alaska through British 

 Columbia (including Vancouver Island) to western Oregon (north of 

 Rogue River Mountains); in winter, south to southern California (Fort 

 Tejon. etc.). 



Fringilla cinerea (not Gmelin) Audubox, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 22, pi. 390, tig. 1 

 (Columbia R. ; upper California); Synopsis, 1839, 119; Birds Am., oct. ed., 

 iii, 1841, 145, pi. 187. 



Passerella cinerea Boxaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. 



[Passerella] cinerea Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 477. 



Zonotrichia cinerea Heermaxx, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1852, 266 

 (California). 



Fringilla guttata (not Vieillot, 1817) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, 2d 

 ed., i, 1840, 581 (Columbia R., etc.). 



Zonotrichia guttata Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 50 (Cali- 

 fornia). 



Z.[onotrichia'\ gutatta Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 373. 



Melospiza guttata Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 

 27, fig. 12.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 391 (Calaveras Co., 

 California). 



[Melospiza melodia.'} Var. guttata, Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



[Melospiza melodia] var. guttata Hexshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298, 

 299 (cfit.). 



Melospiza melodia . . . var. guttata Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 1696. 



^Twenty specimens. ^Thirteen specimens. 



