73. MELOSPIZA. 701 



r. cJad.sk. Cohuilla Valley, California, May G. Frean Morocm, 



4, 1886 (F. Stephens). Esq. [P.]. 



s. Ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico, Jan. 9 (A. Salvin-Godinan Coll. 

 Forrer) . 



t. Ad. sk. Jalapa, Mexico (de Oca). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



u. Ad. sk. Tamaulipas, Mexico. J. Gould, Esq. 



v. Ad. sk. Orizaba, Mexico (Botteri). Sclater Coll. 



w, x. Ad. sk. Guatemala (J. U. Skinner). Gould Coll. 



y. Ad. sk. Guatemala (O. Salvin). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



z. $ ad. sk. Sayana of Poctum, Guatemala, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 March 1862 (O. S.). 



3. Melospiza fasciata. 



Fasciated Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 273 (1783); Penn. 



Antic Zool. ii. p. 375 (1785). 

 Fringilla fasciata, Gm. Syst, Nat. i. p. 922 (1788). 

 Fringilla melodia, Wils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 125, pi. xvi. fig. 4 (1810); 



Audub. B. Amer. pi. 25 ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 125 (1831), v. p. 507 



(1839); id. Syn, p. 120; id. B. Amer. 8vo, iii. p. 147, pi. 189 



(1841) ; Giraud, B. Lony Id, p. 121 (1844). 

 Emberiza ? melodia, Jard. ed. Wils. i. p. 269, pi. xvi. fig. 4 (1832). 

 Zonotriehia meloda, Bp. Com}). List B. Eur. § N. Amer. p. 31 (1838) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (lb49) ; Bp. Consj). i. p. 478 (1850) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 94, no. 7387 (1870). 

 Melospiza melodia, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 477 (1858); id. Mex. 



Bound, Sum. ii. Birds, p. 16 (1858) ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 270 ; Allen, 



Bull. Mus. C. Z. ii. p. 272 (1871), iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key 



N. Amer. B. p. 139 (1872); Baird, Breiver, § Ridgio. Hist. A. 



Amer. B. ii. p. 19, pi. 27. fig. 6 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.-West,^. 138 



(1874) ; id. Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv.p. 596 (1878) ; Merrill, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 127 (1878). 

 Melospiza fasciata, Bidaiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mtts. iii. pp. 2, 180 



(1881) ; Coues, Check-'l. N. Amer. B. p. 53 (1882) ; Merriam, BiM. 



U.S. Nat, Mus. no. 25, p. 283 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd 



ed. p. 371 (1884) ; Bicknell, Auk, ii. p. 147 (1885); Ayersb. t, c. 



p. 280 ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 278 (1886) ; Fox, Auk, 



iii. p. 318 (1886); Seton, t. c.p. 324 (1886). 

 Melospiza fasciata montana, Hensh. Auk, i. p. 224 (1884) ; Batchelder, 



Auk, ii. pp. 124, 236 (1885) ; A. O. U. CJieck-list N. Amer. B. p. 279 



(1886). 

 Melospiza niontana, Salvin §• Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 387 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the mantle and uj>per 

 back mottled with black centres to the feathers, which are broadly 

 edged with ashy internally and with chestnut externally ; lower 

 back and rump more ashy brown, with the dark centres to the 

 feathers more pronounced ; scapulars like the back ; lesser wing- 

 coverts rufous-brown ; median coverts dark brown, surrounded by 

 rufous-brown, with the edges ashy ; greater coverts rufous, ashy or 

 creamy whitish at the tip, with large central spots of black near the 

 ends, resembling the inner secondaries ; bastard-wing blackish, ex- 

 ternally rufous, ashy whitish at the ends ; primary-coverts and 

 q\ulls blackish brown, externally rufous, whitish towards the end of 

 the primaries, the inner secondaries black in the centre, surrounded 

 by rufous, and with broad ashy grey margins ; upper tail-coyerts 



