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of the West Virginia mountains as Melospiza melodia euphonia.^^ 

 This name replaces beata, therefore, as given in the A. O. U. Check-hst. 



Breeding birds from the mountain region of West Virginia appear 

 somewhat darker than those from the central Mississippi Valley, but 

 it seems doubtful with material now at hand that the Allegheny 

 Mountain birds and those from the lowlands to the westward can 

 properly be separated. A good series of fall specimens indicates no 

 evident differences. 



To the eastward eupJionia intergrades with melodia, a specimen 

 secured on Lost River, near McCauley, W. Va., on May 24, 1936, 

 being intermediate but nearer to euphonia. 



This song sparrow is widely distributed from the eastern line of the 

 mountains westward in West Virginia, as indicated by the following 

 localities from which specimens have been examined: Barboursville, 

 November 3; Mercers Bottom, October 29 and 30 and November 2; 

 Ben Lomond, October 28; Ashton, October 31; Point Pleasant, 

 October 27; Zela, May 13; Muddlety, May 14; Drennen, May 18; 

 Big Bend, Calhoun County, May 21; Rocksdale, May 23; White 

 Pine, June 25; 5 miles east of Pliilippi, May 30; 3,000 to 3,500 feet 

 on Williams River, October 3 to 8; 4,800 feet on Spruce Knob, Sep- 

 tember 21; Cranberry Glades (the type locahty). May 9 and June 8 

 to 12; Middle Mountain 12 miles northeast of Durbin, June 29 and 

 July 4 ; Cheat Mountain, above Cheat Bridge, June 26 and September 

 26; 2,000 feet elevation on Cherry Pond Mountain near Arnett, 

 October 23; Flat Top Mountain (2,900 to 3,000 feet), near Flat Top, 

 October 19 and 20, near Odd, October 20, and near Ghent, October 

 14 and 20. 



CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS LAPPGNICUS (Linnaeus) 



Lapland Longspur 



On January 1, 1937, in company with W. M. Perrygo I saw a flock 

 of 25 longspurs circling high in the air over the open level valley of 

 the South Fork of the Potomac River, 3 miles north of Moorefield, 

 and collected two at long range as they passed overhead. These seem 

 to be the first specimens taken in the State, the only other report for 

 the species being two seen by Maurice Brooks ^^ at Red House, 

 Putnam County, on March 7, 1936. 



13 Melospiza -melodia euphonia Wetmore, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 95, no. 17, Sept. 26, 1936, p. 1 

 (3,300 feet elevation, Cranberry Glades, Pocahontas County, W. Va.). 

 M Auk, 1936, p. 454. 



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