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Melospiza fasciata clementae (2) Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, p. 139. (3) 

 Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 342. (Jf) A. 0. U. Committee, Auk, viii, 1891, p. 86. (5) 

 Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 18. (6') Davie, Nests & Eggs N. Am. Birds, 

 5th ed., 1898, p. 392. 



Melospiza fasciata samuelis (?) (7) Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 339. 



Melospiza melodia clementae (8) McGregor, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 88. (9) 

 Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, p. 183. (10) Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1900, 

 p. 232. (11) A. 0. U. Check-list, 3d ed., 1910, p. 274. (/.?) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 

 1912, p. 84. (13) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 8, 1912, p. 22. (I'l) Grinnell, Pac. Coast 

 Avif., 11, 1915, p. 126. 



Melospiza cinerea clementae (15) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., i, 1901, p. 368. {16) 

 A. O. U. Committee. Auk, xx, 1903, p. 351. 



Melospiza clementae (i7) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 56. (IS) Linton, Condor, 

 X, 1908, p. 85. 



Melospiza coronatoriim (19) Grinnell and Daggett, Auk, xx, 1903, p. 34. (:iO) Wright, 

 Condor, xi, 1909, p. 100. (21) Osburn, Condor, xi, 1909, p. 137. 



M[elospiza]. m\_elo(lia'\. clementae {:i2) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., 1903, p. 421. 



M[elospiza]. ciinerea']. clementae (23) Bailey, Handb. Birds West. U. S., 2d ed., 1904, p. 

 359. {24) Reed, N. Am. Birds' Eggs, 1904, p. 267. 



Song Sparrow {25) Breninger, Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 221. 



Melospiza mlelodia]. clementae (26) Willett, Condor, xii, 1910, p. 172. 



Melospiza mlelodia]. coronatorum {21) Osburn, Condor, xiii, 1911, p. 32. 



Common resident of Los Coronados, San Clemente, San Miguel and Santa 

 Rosa islands. Originally described by C. H. Townsend {2) from an adult male 

 taken on San Clemente Island, January 25, 1889. Quite similar to cooperi but 

 slightly larger, with coloration grayer, back light olive-grayish and black streaks 

 narrower. 



J. Grinnell and F. S. Daggett (19) described another subspecies from the 

 Coronados, the type being an adult male taken August 7, 1902. The coloration 

 is said to be about the same as that of clementae but tarsus shorter and bill small- 

 er. This form is not recognized by the A. 0. U. Committee, but the characters 

 certainly hold good in the case of all specimens which I have examined. Song 

 Sparrows are not especially numerous on most parts of the Coronados, but are 

 pretty evenly distributed over the four islands. The latter part of May, 1914, 

 D. R. Dickey (MS) and party discovered seven nests. These were situated either 

 in the low bushes, the carpet of ice plant, or on the ground. The sets, of three 

 or four eggs, seemed to be fresh at this date, and were undoubtedly the second 

 laying, but as all birds must necessarily breed on rather steep hillsides, a sur- 

 prising number of eggs had been broken by pebbles rolling or bouncing into the 

 nests from higher up the slope. Grass, fine weed stems, and some gull feathers 

 are the usual material. 



Song Sparrows are most abundant on San Clemente where their habit of 

 nesting in wisps of grass that grow in the opuntia patches is favorable to 

 their rapid increase. In late April, 1915, D. R. Dickey, L. M. Huey and I found 

 many nests situated as above and a few in thorny bushes or in low weeds. Most 

 of them held young at this date. I saw a juvenile strong on the wing and with 

 tail almost full length, March 27, after which date they were common; and on 

 April 9 I shot one that had almost entirely completed the post-juvenal molt 



