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Allen, Recently Described North America7i Birds. \ h^\ 



" Sp. char. — Similar to Melospiza cinerea but bill longer and more slen- 

 der, middle toe with claws shorter." 

 Type locality, Sanak Island, Alaska. 

 Range, " Sanak and Popoff Islands, Alaska." 



Zamelodia melanocephala microrhyncha Grinnell. 



Western Black-headed Grosbeak. 



Zamelodia melanocephala microrhyncha Grinnell, Condor, II, Nov. 

 1900, 128, figs. 1-4, bill. 



" Subsp. char.— In both sexes, as compared with Z. jnclatiocephala from 

 southern Arizona, bill much smaller and differently proportioned ; wings 

 and tail somewhat shorter ; $ with fore parts, rump, sides and crissum 

 darker brown, almost tawnj of Ridgwaj's Nomenclature of Colors; white 

 tipping of median wing-coverts broader." 



Type locality, Buckthorn Canon, Sierra San Gabriel, Los Angeles, Co., 

 California. 



Range, "Pacific Coast region of the United States, including Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, and Washington." 



Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor. 



Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor, Condor, II, March, 1900, 43. 



'■^ Subspecific characters. — Terminal white spot of outer tail feather 

 considerably shorter (less than one inch) than in megalonyx \ claws much 

 longer and heavier than in oregoniis; under tail-coverts darker than in 

 atratus; rump more or less grayish, upper tail-coverts tipped with pale 

 buff." 



Type locality, Palo Alto, California. 



Range, "San Francisco Bay region." 



Hirundo erythrogastra unalaschkensis (Gmelin). 



Alaskan Swallow. 



Hirundo erythrogastra unalaschkensis W. Palmer, Fur Seals and Fur- 

 Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, Pt. Ill, 1899, p. 422. 



" Similar to H. erythrogastra, but larger, with longer wings and tail 

 and relatively smaller bill ; white areas of tail larger, with narrow white 

 outer edgings to the feathers." 



Seen by Mr. Palmer near the village of St. George on May 28, 1S90, 

 and at Black Bluffs, St. Paul, on June 4 ; nest found at Unalaska on August 

 13, and three young and a pair of adult birds taken there. 



