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581. Melospiza fasciata (Gmel.). This becomes 



Melospiza melodia (Wilson). 



The name Fringilla fasciata Gmelin (1788) given to the Song 

 Sparrow, being preoccupied hy Fringilla fasciata Miiller (1776), 

 given to the Pine Finch {cf Oberholser, Auk, XVI, 1899, 183) 

 it becomes necessary to revert to the long familiar name of Wil- 

 son as the tenable specific designation of the Song Sparrow, 

 which, with its subspecies, will stand as follows : 



581. Melospiza melodia (Wilson). 



Fringilla melodia Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 18 10, 125, pi. xvi. 

 Melospiza melodia Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 477. 



581^. Melospiza melodia fallax (Baird) . 



Zonotrichia fallax Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1854, 

 119. 



Melospiza melodia vzx. fallax CouEs, Key, 1872, 139. 



581^. Melospiza melodia montana (Henshaw). 



Melospiza fasciata montana Henshaw, Auk, I, July, 1884, 

 224. 



Melospiza melodia montana Oberholser, Auk, XVI, April, 

 1899, 183. 



581r. Melospiza melodia heermanni (Baird). 



Melospiza heerfnanni ^aikd, B. N. Am. 1858, 478. 

 Melospiza melodia var. heermanni CouES, Key, 1872, 139. 



581^/. Melospiza melodia samuelis (Baird). 



Ammodramics samuelis Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 455. 

 Melospiza melodia var. samuelis Ridgw. Hist. N, Am. Bds. 

 II, 1874, iS. 



