542 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
58in. Yakutat Song Sparrow. 
Melospiza cinerea caurina (RIDGWAY) RipGw. 1901. 
Coast of middle Alaska, from Cook inlet to Cross sound ;in winter 
to southern Alaska, taken at Howcan, Prince of Wales island. 
(Ridgway in The Auk, Vol. XVI, 1899, p. 36.) Coast of the St. 
Elias district, Alaska, from Yakutat bay to Lituya bay. (Rzdgway.) 
58lo. Kenai Song Sparrow. 
Melospiza cinerea kenaiensts (R1IDGW.) RIDGWAY. 1g01. 
Coast of Kenai peninsula, Alaska, from east side of Cook inlet to 
Prince William sound. Type from Port Graham, Cook inlet, taken 
April 9th, 1892, by C. H. Townsend. (Ridgway in The Auk, Vol. 
XVII, p. 29, 1900.) Two specimens taken at Homer, October 12th, 
1901, were the only ones seen by Figgins near the Kenai mountains, 
Alaska; Anderson in 1903 took seven adults and four juvenals at 
Seldovia. (Chapman.) 
581.1. Kadiak Song Sparrow. 
Melospiza cinerea msignis (BAIRD) RIDGW. 1901. 
Island of Kadiak, Alaska, and opposite coast of Aliaska penin- 
sula. (Ridgway.) 
582. Aleutian Song Sparrow. 
Melospiza cinerea (GMEL.) FINSCH. 1872. 
Among the several insular forms occurring in the Aleutian islands 
and rarely extending their range to the adjacent mainland of south- 
eastern Alaska this large hardy bird, a veritable giant among its 
congeners, is the most peculiar. It is a resident throughout the 
Aleutian islands and is limited to the rocky shores and low flats 
with its bordering beaches, never going far inland, nor does it reach 
any considerable altitude. Strangely enough it does not pass to 
the northward even as far as the Pribilof islands. To the eastward, 
however, it is abundant on the Shumagin islands and Kadiak. (Nel- 
son.) This species is a constant resident of the Aleutian islands, 
the peninsula of Aliaska and the adjacent islands lying on the south 
