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In some of the specimens from British Columbia and Vancouver's 

 Island the markings on the back are still more indistinct than in 

 those from California, but a perfect gradation is found in some of 

 the British-Columbian specimens ; and I cannot separate the two 

 forms M. guttata and M, rufina. 



Hah. Pacific coast of North America from California to Sitka. 



a. Ad. sk. California (Bell). Sclater Coll. 



b. <J ad. sk. Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. 26 (A. Forrer). 



c. d. £ 2 ad. sk. Columbia River, Oregon, Oct. U.S. Nat. Mus. [P 1. 



1878 (H. W. Henshaw; Sm. 



nos. 77702, 77714). 

 e. c? ad. sk. Crooked River, Oregon, Sept. U.S. Nat. Mus. r P.L 



22, 1878 (H. W. Henshaw; 



Sm. no. 77717) 

 /. Ad. sk. Western Territory (Dr. G. Suck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley ; Sm. no. 4540). 

 g, h, i. Ad. sk. British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.l. 



h, I. Ad. sk. West side of Rocky Mountains, J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.J. 



British Columbia, 

 m.^ad.sk. Vancouver Island, Jan. 29 (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



forrer) . 

 n. Ad.; o. c? juv. Cypress Island. Dr. Lyall [P.]. 



sk. 

 p. 6 ad. sk. Orcas Island. Dr. Lyall [P.], 



4. Melospiza cinerea. 



Cinereous Finch, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 378 (1785) ; Lath. Gen. 



Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 274 (1783). 

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

 Zonotrichia cinerea, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; Bj>. Com/), i. 



p. 478 (1850). 

 Melospiza insiguis, Baird, Trans. Chicago Acad. i. p. 319, pi. 29. 



fig. 2 (1869) ; Dull Sf Bann. t. c. p. 28*5 (1869) ; Finsch, Abhandl. 



not. Ver. Brem. iii. p. 44 (1872). 

 Zonotrichia insiguis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 94, no. 7392 (1870). 

 Melospiza melodia, var. insignis, Coues, Fey A. Amer. B. p. 140 



(1872) ; Baird, Brewer, &■ Ridgiv. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 30, 



pi. 27. fig. 8 (1874). 

 Melospiza melodia, h. insignis, Coues, B. N.- West, p. 139 (1874). 

 Melospiza cinerea, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 3, 180 (1881) ; 



Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 54 (1882) ; Nelson, Cruize R. S. 



'Conom,'p. 72 (1883); Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. pp. 154, 



172 (1882) ; Coues, Fey N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 372 (1884) ; 



Turner, Auk, ii. p. 157 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 281 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above nearly uniform ashy brown, the 

 lower back and rump uniform, the mantle and back slightly mottled 

 with mesial markings of dull rufous near the ends of the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts reddish brown, the rufous more decided on the greater 

 coverts, which are dusky blackish near the ends of the inner 

 web, which is fringed with white at the tips ; bastard-wing dusky 



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