73. melospiza. 697 



1. Melospiza georgiana. 



Fringilla georgiana, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 460 (1790) ; Nutt. Man. 



p. 502 (1832). _ 

 Fringilla palustris, Wilson, Amer. Orn. iii. p. 49, pi. 22. fig. 1 (1811); 



Audub.B. Amer.yl. 64; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 331 (1831), v. p. 508 



(1839). 

 Fringilla (Spiza) palustris, Bp. Obs. Wils. 1825, no. 105. 

 Zonotrichia palustris, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 338, pi. 21. 



fig. 1 (1832) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 374 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 94, no. 7394 (1870). 

 Passerculus palustris, Bp. Comjy. List B. Bur. fy N. Amer. p. 33 



(1838) ; id. Consp. i. p. 481 (1850). 

 Arnmodromus palustris, Audub. Syn. p. Ill (1839) ; id. B. Amer. iii. 



p. 110, pi. 175 (1841); Giraud, B. Long lsl. p. 114 (1844). 

 Fringilla (Ammodromus) georgiana, Nutt. Man. Orn. p. 588 (1840). 

 Melospiza palustris, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 483 (1858) ; Scl. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 114 (18621 ; Blakist. Ibis, 1863, p. 79 ; Lawr. Ann. 



Lye. N Y. viii. p. 286 (1867) ; Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. 



p. 505 (1868) ; id. Bull. Mus. C. Z. ii. p. 279 (1871), iii. p. 177 



(1872) ; Coxes, Key N. Amer. B. p. 138 (1872) ; Baird, Bretver, Sf 



Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 34, pi. 28. figs. 1, 2 (1874) ; Coues, 



B. N- West, p. 137 (1874) ; Hensh. Rep. Zool. Ba.pl. 100th Merid. 



p. 285(1875); Coues, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 596 (1878); 



Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 180 (1881) ; Coues, Check-l. N 



Amer. B. p. 53 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 370 (1884); 



Bicknell, Auk, ii. p. 149 ; Loomis, t. c. p. 189 ; Chadb. t. c. pp. 216 



381 ; Agersb. t. c. p. 280 ; Bulley, Auk, iii. p. 277 (1886). 

 Passerculus caboti, Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgic. Hist. N. Amer. B. iii. 



pi. 46. fig. 9 (1874, descr. nulla) ; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



iii. p. 235 (1881). 

 Melospiza georgiana, Ridyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 355 (1885); 



A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 281 (1886) ; Fox, Auk, iii. 



p. 318 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the feathers mesially 

 streaked with black and edged with lighter brown, those on the 

 mantle with whitish margins ; lower back and rump light brown, 

 with more or less concealed black centres to the feathers ; wing- 

 coverts chestnut, with a mesial black mark at the ends, much more 

 pronounced on the greater series, which have a narrow edging of 

 creamy white at the tips ; bastard-wing blackish, margined with 

 white ; primary-coverts and quills brown, edged with rufous-brown, 

 the first primary white along the outer margin, the secondaries 

 externally chestnut ; the innermost secondaries black, externally 

 washed with chestnut, white towards the end of the outer web, thus 

 resembling the greater coverts ; upper tail-coverts rufous, with broad 

 black central streaks ; tail-feathers dusky brown, rufous on the 

 edges, with black along the centre of the middle feathers ; crown of 

 head uniform bright chestnut ; the forehead black, with a narrow 

 median line of ashy fulvous ; nape and hind neck clear slaty grej-, 

 streaked with black ; lores white, continued into a broad eyebrow of 

 pale ashy ; eyelid white, as also the feathers below the eye ; ear- 

 coverts ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines, and surmounted on the 



