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have the word "insignis" only in the hand of Charles W. Richmond. Thus 



it appears that Nos. 54536 and 54537 were the specimens that first convinced 



Baird that he had to deal with an unnamed race. 



Despite Baird's later and apparently capricious choice of No. 52476 as 



lectotype, all of the original six must be considered cotypes. 



Melospiza melotlia ke^iaiensis Ridgway 

 Auk 17 (1) : 29, January 1900. 

 131730. Adult? (on label, "juv") male. Port Graham (on the shore of 

 Cook's Inlet near the tip of the Kenai Peninsula), southern Alaska. 

 Apr. 9, 1892. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. 



Melospiza fasciata caurina Ridgway 

 Auk 16 (1) : 36, January 1899. 

 =Melospiza melodia caurina Ridgway. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 11 : 601, 1938. 

 138367. Adult male. Yakutat (a settlement on Yakutat Bay), southeast- 

 ern Alaska. July 6, 1895. Collected by Clark P. Streator. Received 

 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Melospiza melodia inexspeclata Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24: 234, Nov. 28, 1911. 

 222829. Adult female. On the Fraser River, about three miles east of 

 Moose Lake, Mount Robson National Park, Cariboo Electoral District, 

 Province of British Columbia, Canada. Aug. 21, 1911. Collected by 

 J. Harvey Riley. Original number 2268. Alpine Club of Canada's 

 Expedition to Jasper Park, Yeilowhead Pass, and the Mount Robson 

 Region, 1911. 



Fringilla cinerea "Gmel." Audubon 

 Ornithological biography 5 : 22, 1839. 



Fringilla guttata Nuttall 



Manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada, ed. 2, 

 p. 581, 1840. 



Melospiza melodia morphiia Oberholser 

 Auk 16 (2) : 183, Apr. 1899. 

 =Melospiza melodia morphna Oberholser. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 601-602, 1938. 

 1860. Adult female. "Columbia River"=vicinity of Fort Vancouver, 

 Clark County, Washington. Jan. 18, 1836. Collected by John K. 

 Townsend. Received from Spencer F. Baird (of whose private collec- 

 tion it once formed part), who acquired it from Edward Harris, who, 

 in turn, obtained it from John J. Audubon or John K. Townsend. 

 1942. Adult (sex not indicated). "Columbia River";^vicinity of Fort 

 Vancouver, Clark County, Washington. Collected by John K. Town- 

 send. Received from Spencer F. Baird (of whose private collection it 

 once formed part) , who acquired it from John J. Audubon, who, in turn, 

 obtained it from John K. Townsend. 



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