37-i BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult iuale.—hQugXh. (skin.s), 14S.51)-lTo.99 (159.51); wing, 66. SO- 

 TO. 71 (72.14); tail, 66.04-73.66 (70.10); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.70 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.37 (7.11); tarsus, 22.86-24.64 

 (23.88); middle toe, 17.27-17.78 (17.53).' 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 139.70-152.40 (144.78); wing, 64.01- 

 70.36 (67.06); tail, 58.42-70.10 (63.50); exposed culmen, 10.67-12.70 

 (12.19); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.37 (7.11); tarsus, 22.35-24.38 

 (23.11); middle toe, 16.26-17.78 (17.02).'' 



Southern Alaska (islands and coast); north to Cross Sound, Glacier 

 Bay, Lynn Canal, etc. ; south to north side of Dixon Entrance, in win- 

 ter to coast of British Columbia, Vancouver Island, and northwestern 

 Washington (Olympic Mountains). 



\_Passerella'\ rujina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, July 15, 1850, 477 (Sitka, Alaska; 

 ex ^' Emberiza vKjina Brandt, Desc. Av. Rossic, 1836, tab. ii, 5"^). 



Passerella rufina Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 331 (Sitka). 



Melospiza rufina (not of Baird) Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 

 1869, 285 (Sitka). 



[Zonotrichia^ rufina Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 9388. 



[3Mos2jiza melodia.'\ Var. rufina Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



Melospiza melodia . . . var. rufina Coces, Check List, 1873, no. 169c. 



Melospiza melodia, var. rtfina Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 29, pi. 27, tig. 11. 



(?) Melospiza melodia rufina Finsch, Journ. fiirOrn., 1883, 271 (Chilcoot, Alaska, 

 Jan. 30; crit.).— Goode, Bull. U. S. Xat. 3Ius., no. 20, 1883, 328.— Oberhol- 

 ser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 183. 



{Melospiza meloda"] var. rufina Henshaw, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, July, 1879, 

 159, 160 (crit.); Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298,299 (crit.). 



\_Melospiza melodia'] g. rufina Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139 (synonymy). 



M-l^elospizalfasciatarufina^iDcwAY, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., iii. Mar. 27, 1880, 3; 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 432. 



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

 217; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 231e.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 247.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 152, part (Port Althorp, 

 Georges L, Alaska, breeding). — (?)Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 169 (Washing- 

 ton Co., Oregon, winter). — American Ornithologists' LTnion, Check List, 

 1886, no. 581/.— Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 192, part 

 (Sitka).— (?)Fannin, Check List, Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 37 (resident on 

 coast of mainland). — Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 128 (Sitka). 



M.^elospiza] /.[asciatal rufina Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 372. 



[Melospiza fasciata.'] Subsj). S. MelosjAza rufina Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 706, part (in synonymy). 



Melospiza guttata (not Fringilla guttata Nuttall) Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., 

 iii, 1872, 41 (Sitka). 



^ Five specimens, two with sex not determined, but almost certainly males. 

 ^Thirteen specimens, few of them with sex not determined, but probably females. 

 ^ Sharpe gives the same citation of Brandt with the addition of "pi. 215." 



