BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 377 



Island of Kudiak. Alaska, and opposite coast of Alaska Peninsula 

 (Kukak Bay, etc.). 



Melospiza insignis Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 319, pi. 29, fig. 2 

 (Kadiak, Alaska; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago 

 Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 285 (Kadiak). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridc^way, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 27, fig. 8.— Richmond, Auk, xii, 1895, 144-149 

 (monogr.). — American Ornitholocjists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 581.1; Auk, xiv, 1897, 122. 



3L[elospiza] msignis Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 159, 160, j^art 

 (crit.); Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298, 299 (crit.).— Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 604. 



[Zonotnchia] Insignis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7392. 



[3feJospiza melodia.] Var. insignis Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 140. 



Melospiza melodia . . . var. insignis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169/. 



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

 ii, 1874, 30, part (Kadiak). 



{_MeIospiza melodia] h. insignis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139, part. 



Melospiza melodia insignis Goode, Bull. L^. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 328. — Grin- 

 nell. Condor, iii, 1901, 22 (Kadiak). 



3r.[elospiza'] cinerea (not Fringilla cinerea Gmelin) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iii, March 27, 1880, 3, part; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 432, part.— 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884, 372, part. 



Melospiza cinerea Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180, 217, part; 

 xvi, 1893, 664 (Kadiak); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 232, part. — Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 250, part.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 

 154, part (Kadiak). — Nelson, Cruise "Corwin", in 1881, 1883, 72, part 

 (Kadiak); Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 193, part (Kadiak). — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 582, part (Kadiak). — 

 Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 174, part (Kadiak; Alaska Peninsula, 

 part). — Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 707, part (in synonymy). 



Melospiza fasciata rufina (not Passerella nijina Bonaparte) Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. 

 Coll. Alaska, 1887, 192, part (Kadiak). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA CINEREA (Gmelin). 

 ALEUTIAN SONG SPARROW. 



Similar to JL e. i?isi(/nis but still larger and grayer: general color 

 above olive-gray (almost ash-gray in summer), the back broadly streaked 

 with brown (usually inclosing narrow blackish shaft-streaks), the pileum 

 usually with two broad lateral stripes of light Vandyke or mummy 

 brown (these often oljsolete in worn sitmmer plumage); streaks on 

 chest, etc., vaiying from light grayish brown to rustv brown. Young 

 similar to the young of JL c. insignis^ but paler above and streaks of 

 under parts grayish brown instead of sooty brown. 



Adult male.—LQngih (skins), 170.43-204.73 (187.96): wing, 82.04- 

 87.38 (85.09): tail, 78.49-86.61 (82.55); exposed culmen, 14.99-18.03 

 (16.26); depth of bill at base, 7.62-9.14 (8.38); tarsus, 26.92-29.21 

 (27.94); middle toe, 18.80-21.08 (20.07).^ 



^Sixteen sjtecimens. 



