BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 389 



FrhujUla rufa Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1811, 53, pi. 22, fig. 4 (Pennsylvania, etc.; 



ex Bartrain). — Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, no. 428. 

 * ' Emberiza pnttevsis Vieill. ?' ' ( Cab.\xis. ) 

 Pas.S(^re&/ r>/>.so?o''/ Verrill, Proc. Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., ix, Dec, 1SH2, 143 (Anticosti 



I.; coll. [NIus. Coinp. Zool., Cambridge ;= young). 



PASSERELLA ILIACA UNALASCHENSIS (Gmelin). 

 SHUMAGIN FOX SPARROW. 



AdiilU {si'iices aUJie). — Pileuni and hindneek brownish gray or grayish 

 brown (nearly hair browni), passing into clear gray (mouse gray or 

 smoke gray) on superciliary region and sides of neck; auricular region 

 ])rownish gray, with narrow and indistinct shaft-streaks of whitish; 

 back, scapulars, and rump plain hair ])rown; greater wing-coverts, 

 tertials, and upper tail-coverts dull cinnamon-})rown, the rest of wings 

 intermediate between the last-named color and color of back, except 

 edges of outermost primaries, which are pale hair brown; under parts 

 white, the foreneck, sides of throat (subniiilar region), chest, and sides 

 of 1)reast marked with triangular spots of deep grayish brown or dral), 

 the flanks broadly streaked or striped with the same (iK)th sides and 

 flanks mostly grayish brown laterally); malar region wiiite, flecked 

 Avith grayish broAvn; under tail-coverts grayish lirown centrally, 

 l>roadly margined with white or l)ufly white: middle of throat and 

 breast usually with a few small spots of brown; maxilla dusky on 

 culmen, paler on tomia: mandible pale colored (yellowish in winter, 

 pinkish or liliaceous in summer); iris brown; legs and feet l)rown. 



Adult male.— l^Qwgih (skins), 165.10-170.18(167.04); wing, 83.31- 

 86.11 (84.33); tail, 73.15-75.61) (7-1.68); exposed culmen, 12.45-12.70 

 (12.58); depth of bill at l)ase, 9.40-9.91 (9.73); .tarsus, 25.40-25.91 

 (25.65); middle toe, 16.76-17.27 (17.02); hind claw, 10.16-12.45 (11.43).^ 



Adidt /t^y/^rt^^— Length (skins), 157.48-169.67 (163.58); wing, 

 79.76-81.03 (80.26); tail. 68.83-71.12 (69.85); exposed culmen, 12.70- 

 13.21 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 9.65-9.91 (9.78); tarsus, 24.89- 

 25.65 (25.15); middle toe, 16.51-17.53 (17.02); hind claw. 11.68-12.45 

 (12.07).-' 



Shumagin Islands and Alaska Peninsula (Kukak Bay, et<'.), Alaska; 

 Unalaska Island '. ''■ 



^ Three specimens. '^Two specimens. 



^ Although no PasHei'ella has hitherto been found on Unalaska (unless the Aoona- 

 lashka Bunting of Latham really came from there), it is not at all unlikely that the 

 present form may occur there, at least accidentally. Certainly if any form of the 

 genus does occur on that island it would be the present one rather than the Kadiak 

 form, most of the land birds of the Shumagins and Unalaska being the same, e. g., 

 Leiicosdcff grlseunurha, Passerina nivalis toivnsemlt, Melosjyiza melodia cinerea, etc. 

 This form inhabits, on the Shumagins and the peninsula, alder thickets. No alders 

 now grow on that portion of Unalaska Island within sight from the town of Una- 

 laska or its vicinity, but they may have done so formerly, or may now occur in 

 other parts of the island. At any rate, it seems better to retain the name unalasch- 

 en-sia for the present form rather than to give it a new one, since the Emheriza una- 

 lasclteit-'^is of Gmelin seems almost certain to have been the present form. 



