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Alu. Xat., 1870, p. 17.) The recognizable forms of tliis species should 

 therefore be known as (169a) M. fasciata fallax, (160 &) M. fasciata 

 (/iitfata, (169c) ill. fasciata rujina, (169 fZ) 71/. fasciata heermanni, and 

 {169c) J/. 'FASCIATA SAMUELis {samitelis antedating- gouldii). ' 



169y'. Melospiza cinerea (Gm.)Eidgw. — Through the explorations of 

 Messrs. Dall, Turner, and Nelson, the fauna of Unalashka has of late 

 years been very thoroughly investigated, and we are thus able to iden- 

 tify the ''Cinereous Finch" of Pennant (Arct. Zoology, II, p. 68) upon 

 which Gmelin based his Fringilla cinerea (S. N., I, ii, p. 922) with the 

 species which Professor Baird afterward named Mclo.spiza insignis (Trans. 

 Chicago Acad., I, i, j). 319, pi. 29, fig. 2). Through the same means it 

 becomes equally certain that the Oonalaska Bunting of Pennant and 

 Latham {Emheri.za unalaschcenKis, Gm., S. K., I, ii, p. 875) is, as some 

 authors have long maintained, the bird usually called Passerella town- 

 sendi (Aud.). The known forms of Passerella having been proven by Mr. 

 Henshaw to intergTade, and therefore, to constitute mere geographical 

 races of a single species, thej* should be known by the following names : — 



188. P. iliaca (Merrem) Sw. 



t'189"rt. P. ILIACA ITNALASCHCE]SrSIS (Gm.) RldgW. 



189 a. P. ILIACA schistacea (Baird) Hensh. 



. P. ILIACA megarhyncha (Baird) Hensh. — 



the latter — connecting unalasclwensis with schistacea^ but peculiar in 

 the extremely robust bill and other characters — not being given in the 

 "Check List." 



170 « (Appendix). Peuccea arizonw, Ridgw. — There is very strong prob- 

 ability of this being quite distinct, specifically, from P. cestivaHs. (See 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I. 1878, p. 127, foot-note.) 



177. Spizella MONTANA (Forst.) Ridgw. — Forster's name of montana 

 a])plied to this species in 1772 antedates Gmelin's name mouUcola (1788), 

 and, there being no objection to it otherwise, should be substituted for it. 



180 «. Spizelki breweri, Cass. — Thus fiir there appears not the slight- 

 est evidence that this bird should be referred to 8. pallida. The respective 

 habitats of the two overlap quite considerably, and they may always be 

 •easily distinguished by the markings of the head. 



191. Spiza amcricana (Gm.) Bp. — In 1858 Professor Baird rejected 

 the generic name Spiza for this species, for the reason that, although it 

 "was first used in connection with Emberiza americana,'''' it was "so 

 mixed up with tyi)es of several other modern genera as to render it 

 uncertain whether to apply it to one rather than to another" — at the same 

 time remarking that "if Sjyiza pointed more unmistakably to the U. 

 americana it might, perhaps, be necessary to adopt it." (" Birds N. Am.," 

 p. 494.) Upon referring to the "Specchio Comparative," where Bona- 

 parte next, after its institution, mentions his genus Spiza, I find, in the 



