BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—MELOSPIZA MELODIA. ATT 
Prevailing color above olivaceous gray. Stripes of breast purer black, with little 
or no rufous suffusion externally. Wing 2.50 inches.....................eermannt. 
Similar to the last but much smaller. Wing 2.10 inches................Var. gouldit. 
Streaks above and below dark rufous, without black centres. Bill slender. 
Above decidedly rufous brown, the streaks very obsolete, without gray edges. 
Beneath thickly streakedicsresersecscscercasiossetenecascserscneesesescecens sensei U/UlOe 
Above brownish gray. Streaks distinct ; feathers with gray edging. Beneath 
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Helospiza, Baird. 
B. Under parts white; breast reddish yellow, with distinct, well defined streaks. Head 
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C. Head above uniform reddish. Beneath white, without streaks, or with very obsolete ones, 
except on sides of breast. Breast tinged with plUMbeous............cssesseeseeesesvesseveees palustris. 
Comparative measurements of species. 
fi Species. Locality. 4 So “b a 2 eS 2 = | Specimen 
€ 4 2E = 3 g s = = — | measured. 
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1590 | Melospiza melodia ...| Boston, Ma@ss...e0.sescecs(evcees | G42 lessees 2.62 
BUSS naan ot saccieastesice Carlisle, Penn. QO | 5.70 |ercees 
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2037 | sisisnisie Osscavcascvevee|soveee CO ssiterasreeicres's | 5.20 |eeceee 
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9528 | Melospiza rufina,.... Puget Sound.........e00- OF 1640! |seanas 
6227 | Melospiza heermanni., Tejon Valley.. Goo kG s225 leaeecs 
M7) MONsieseeceeany | Fort Tejon, Cal.. Gut DEO0? | Pare. 
8053 | Melospiza gouldii....| California.......... eeeeeeleeeees 14.70 il eeeaet g 
10281 | Melospiza fallax...... Cainp 106, Pueblocr.,N.M.|..+...) 6.46 |... 2 
2255 bsleieie's. GO veces ce veceee Mimbres to Rio Grande ..|....-. | 5.50 |oocees| 2. 
Fresh .. ss. 
MELOSPIZA MELODIA, Baird. 
Song Sparrow. 
Fringilla melodia, Witson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 125; pl. xvi, f. 4.—Licur. Verz. 1823, No. 249.—Aup. Orn. Biog 
I, 1832, 126: V, 507; pl 25.—Is. Syn. 1839, 120.—In. Birds Amer. III, 1841, 147; pl. 189. 
Zonotrichia melodia, Bon. List, 1838.—Is. Conspectus, 1850, 478. 
2? Fringilla fasciata,! Gmewin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922.—Nurrari, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 562. 
2? Fringilla hyemalis, Gmewin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922. 
Sp. Cu.—General tint of upper parts rufous brown, streaked with dark brown and ashy gray. The crown is rufous, with a 
superciliary and median stripe of dull gray, the former lighter ; nearly white anteriorly, where it hasa faint shade of yellow ; each 
feather of the crown with a narrow streak of dark brown. Interscapulars dark brown in the centre, then rufous, then grayish 
‘The fasciated sparrow of Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 375, upon which Gmelin’s name is based, answers pretty well for our 
species, but the tail is said to be crossed by numerous dusky bars, which is not the case with melodia, The winter sparrow of 
Pennant, II, 376, Fringilla hyemalis, Gmelin, is equally uncertain. 
