542 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



58ln. Yakutat Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza cinerea caurina (Ridgway) Ridgw. 1901. 



Coast of middle Alaska, from Cook inlet to Cross sound ; in winter 

 to southern Alaska, taken at Ho wean, Prince of Wales island. 

 (Ridgway in The Auk, Vol. XVI, 1899, p. 36.) Coast of the St. 

 Elias district, Alaska, from Yakutat bay to Lituya bay. (Ridgway.) 



58lo. Kenai Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza cinerea kenaiensis (Ridgw.) Ridgway. 1901. 



Coast of Kenai peninsula, Alaska, from east side of Cook inlet to 

 Prince William sound. Type from Port Graham, Cook inlet, taken 

 April 9th, 1892, by C. H. Townsend. (Ridgway in The Auk, Vol. 

 XVII, p. 29, 1900.) Two specimens taken at Homer, October 12th, 

 1 901, were the only ones seen by Figgins near the Kenai mountains, 

 Alaska; Anderson in 1903 took seven adults and four juvenals at 

 Seldovia. (Chapman.) 



581.1. Kadiak Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza cinerea insignis (Baird) Ridgw. 1901. 



Island of Kadiak, Alaska, and opposite coast of Aliaska penin- 

 sula. (Ridgway.) 



582. Aleutian Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza cinerea (Gmel.) Finsch. 1872. 



Among the several insular forms occurring in the Aleutian islands 

 and rarely extending their range to the adjacent mainland of south- 

 eastern Alaska this large hardy bird, a veritable giant among its 

 congeners, is the most peculiar. It is a resident throughout the 

 Aleutian islands and is limited to the rocky shores and low flats 

 with its bordering beaches, never going far inland, nor does it reach 

 any considerable altitude. Strangely enough it does not pass to 

 the northward even as far as the Pribilof islands. To the eastward, 

 however, it is abundant on the Shumagin islands and Kadiak. (Nel- 

 son.) This species is a constant resident of the Aleutian islands, 

 the peninsula of Aliaska and the adjacent islands lying on the south 



