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Melospiza insignis (not of Baird) Dall, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 27 (Una- 



laska); 1874, 27-1 (Kyska and throughout Aleutians). 

 M-lelospiza} insignis Hexshaw, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 159, 160, part 



(crit.). 

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



Birds, ii, 1874, 30, part (Unalaska). 

 [Melospiza melodial h. insignis Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 139, part (synonymy). 

 Emheriza unalaschensis (not of Gmelin?) Brandt, Descr. Anim. Ross., 1836, pi. 2, 



fig. 4. — FiNSCH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., iii, 1872, 20. — Schalow, Journ. fiir 



Orn., 1891, 256 (Unalaska). 

 Melospiza sanaka McGregor, Condor, iii, Jan., 1901 (pub. Nov. 25, 1900), 8 



(Sanak I., Shumagin group; "coll. R. C. McGregor). 



MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII (Audubon). 

 LINCOLN'S SPARROW. 



Ninth primary longer than fourth (often equal to fifth); malar region 

 and broad band across chest buff, the latter streaked (usuall}' narrowly) 

 with black. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum light mummy brown, conspicuously 

 streaked with black and divided by a more or less distinct median 

 stripe of olive-grayish; hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts light olive or buff'y olive, sharply streaked with black, the 

 streaks broadest on back; outer surface of wings more rusty brown- 

 ish, especiall}' on innermost greater coverts and secondaries, the greater 

 coverts and tertials conspicuoush' blackish centrally; tail light gray- 

 ish brown (hair brown or broccoli brown), the middle rectrices with a 

 median stripe of dusk}-; superciliary stripe and sides of neck grayish 

 or olive-grayish, the former more or less buffy anteriorly; auricular 

 region similar, but rather darker or browner, margined above by a 

 distinct postocular streak of blackish and below by a rictal streak of 

 the same; malar region, post-auricular space, broad band across chest, 

 sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts buffy, the chest, sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts streaked with black; rest of under parts white, the 

 throat usuallv more or less flecked or streaked with black and mar- 

 gined laterally with a black submalar line or series of streaks. 



Young. — Essentiall}^ like adults, but rather more buff'y, the colors 

 more suffused and markings less sharply defined. 



Adult ?/iale.— Length (skins), 123.95-146.30 (133.86); wing, 57.10- 

 66.55 (62.99); tail, 52.58-61.98 (57.66); exposed culmen, 10.11-11.91: 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 5.81-7.11 (6.3.5); tarsus, 19.81-21.81 

 (20.83); middle toe, 13.72-16.51 (11.99).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 115.32-137.92 (128.52); wing, 51.61- 

 62.23 (59.41); tail, 51.05-59.44 (54.36); exposed culmen, 9.65-11.68 



' Seventeen specimen.s. 



