ORDER PASSERES. 279 



[B C , R 2300, C 256.] 



HAB. Southern New Mexico and Southern Arizona, south into 

 Mexico. 



580 . Peucaea ruficeps eremceca BROWN. 



Rock Sparrow. 



Peucaa ruficeps eremceca BROWN, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. VII. Jan. 

 1882, 26. 



[B _ C , R , C .] 



HAB. Southwestern Texas, south into Eastern Mexico. 



GENUS MELOSPIZA BAIRD. 



Melospiza BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 478. Type, Fringilla melodia 

 WILS. = F.fasciata GMEL. 



581. Melospiza fasciata (GMEL.). 



Song Sparrow. 



Fringilla fasciata GMEL. S. N. I. 1788, 922. 

 Melospiza fasciata SCOTT, Am. Nat. X. 1876, 18. 



[B 3 6 3 , C 169, R 231, C 244-] 



HAB. Eastern United States to the Plains, breeding from Virginia 

 and the northern portion of the Lake States northward. 



531 a. Melospiza fasciata fallax (BAIRD). 



Desert Song Sparrow. 



Zonotrichia fallax BAIRD, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1854, 119 



(nee Melospiza fallax auctorum plurimorum !). 

 Melospiza fasciata fallax HEXSH. Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 



[B 367, C \^a,part, R 231 a, part, C 245, part.~\ 

 HAB. New Mexico and Arizona. 



531 . Melospiza fasciata montana HENSH. 



Mountain Song Sparrow. 



Melcspiza fasciata montana HENSHAW, Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 



