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581. Melospiza fasciata (GMEL.). 
Song Sparrow. 
Fringilla fasciata GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 922. 
Melospiza fasciata Scott, Am. Nat. X. 1876, 18. 
[B'362, ©) 169, R23) Caza 
Groc. Dist.— Eastern United States to the Plains, breeding from 
Virginia and the southern portion of the Lake States northward to. 
the Fur Countries. 
581a. Melospiza fasciata fallax (Bairp). 
Desert Song Sparrow. 
Zonotrichia fallax BairvD, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1854, 119 
(nec Melospiza fallax auctorum plurimorum !). 
Melospiza fasciata fallax HeEnsu. Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 
[B 367, C 1694, part, R 2314, part, C 245, part.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Parts of New Mexico, Arizona, southern Nevada, 
and southwestern Utah. 
581 4. Melospiza fasciata montana HENsuH. 
Mountain Song Sparrow. 
Melospiza fasciata montana HENSHAW, Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 
[B—, C 1692, part, R 2314, part, C 245, part.| 
Geroc. Dist.— Northern Mexico, mountains of New Mexico, Colo- 
rado, Utah, Nevada, and northward. 
581¢. Melospiza fasciata heermanni (Bairp). 
Heerman’s Song Sparrow. 
Melospiza heermanni BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 478. 
Melospiza fasciata §. heermanni Rrpew. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. III. 
April, 1878, 66. 
[B 364, C 169d, R 2314, C 248.] 
Gros. Dist.— California, east into western Nevada. 
581d. Melospiza fasciata samuelis (Bairp). 
Samuels’s Song Sparrow. 
Ammodromus samuelis BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 455. 
Melospiza fasciata samuelis RipGw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Mar. 
1880, 3. 
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