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Am. Nat., 1876, p. 17.) The recognizable forms of this species should 
therefore be known as (169a) MW. FASCIATA fallax, (169b) M. FASCIATA 
guttata, (169¢) M. FASCIATA rufina, (169d) M. FASCIATA heermanni, and 
(169e) M. FASCIATA SAMUELIS (samuelis antedating gouldii). 
1697. Melospiza CINEREA (Gm.)Ridgw.—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, I, p. 68) upon 
which Gmelin based his Fringilla cinerea (S. N., I, ii, p. 922) with the 
species which Professor Baird afterward named Melospiza insignis (Trans. 
Chicago Acad., I, i, p. 319, pl. 29, fig. 2). Through the same means it 
becomes equally certain that the Oonalaska Bunting of Pennant and 
Latham (HLmberiza unalaschcensis, Gm., S. N., 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 intergrade, and therefore, to constitute mere geographical 
races of a single species, they should be known by the following naiies :— 
188. P. iliaca (Merrem) Sw. 
$1897%a. P. ILIACA UNALASCHCENSIS (Gm.) Ridgw. 
189a. P. ILIACA schistacea (Baird) Hensh. 
—. P. ILIACA megarhyncha (Baird) Hensh.— 
the latter—connecting wnalaschcensis with schistacea, but peculiar in 
the extremely robust bill and other characters—not being given in the 
“Check List.” 
170a (Appendix). Peucwa arizone, Ridgw.—There is very strong prob- 
ability of this being quite distinct, specifically, from P. wstivalis. (See 
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., I, 1878, p. 127, foot-note.) 
177. Spizella MONTANA (Forst.) Ridgw.—Forster’s name of montana 
applied to this species in 1772 antedates Gmelin’s name monticola (1788), 
and, there being no objection to it otherwise, should be substituted for it. 
180a. Spizella BREWERI, Cass.—Thus far there appears not the slight- 
est evidence that this bird should be referred to S. pallida. The respective 
habitats of the two overlap quite considerably, and they may always be 
easily distinguished by the markings of the head. 
191. Sp1zA americana (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 EHmberiza americana,” it was ‘so 
mixed up with types 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 Spiza pointed more unmistakably to the LF. 
americana it might, perhaps, be necessary to adopt it.” (‘‘Birds N. Am.,” 
p. 494.) Upon referring to the ‘“Specchio Comparativo,” where Bona- 
parte next, after its institution, mentions his genus Spiza, I find, in the 
