54 CHECK LIST GF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



245. Melospiza fasciata fallax (Bd.) Ridg. B 367. c iG9a. R 23ia. 



Gray Song Sparrow. 



246. Melospiza fasciata gnttata (Nutt.) Ridg. B . c 1696. R 23i<*. 



Oregon Song Sparrow. 



247. Melospiza fasciata mfina (Brandt) Ridg. B 366. c I69c. R 23ie. 



Rufous Song Sparrow. 



248. Melospiza fasciata heermanni (Bd.) Ridg. B 364. c i69rf. R 23i&. 



Heermaim's Song Sparrow. 



249. Melospiza fasciata sanmelis ( Bd.) Ridg. B 343, 365. c i69e. R 23ic. 



Samuels' Song Sparrow. 



250. Melospiza cinerea (Gm.) Ridg. B . c ico/. R 232. 



Bischoff's Song Sparrow. 



251. Peucsea aestivalis (Licht.) Cab. B 370. c 170. R 226. 



Bachman's Summer Finch. 



252. Pencsea aestivalis illinoensis Ridg. B . c . R 226a. 



Illinois Summer Finch. 



253. Peucaea sestivalis arizonae Ridg. B . c noa. R 227. 



Arizona Summer Finch. 



245. M. f. faF-lax. Lat./a//aar, false, fallacious, deceitful ; in allusion to the perplexity attend- 



ing the attempt to distinguish it specifically from M. fasciata. 



246. M. f. gut-ta'-ta. Lat. guttatus, spotted ; gutta, a drop. 



247. M. f. ru-fi'-na. Lat. rufus, reddish, of which rttfinus is an arbitrary form. 



248. M. f. heer'-man-ni. To Dr. A. L. Heermann, of Philadelphia, sometime naturalist of the 



Pacific R. R. Survey. 



249. M. f. sam-u-eMls. To E. Samuels. Samuelis is more euphonic than the usual form 



samuelsi would be. 



This is M. goiddii of the first ed. of the Check List, the name now adopted having 

 priority. 



250. M. cin-eV-g-us. Lat. cinereus, ashy (-colored) : from cinis, genitive cineris, ash. So cin- 



der, in-cm-erate, &c. 



This is M. insignis Bd. of the first ed. of the Check List. As Ridgway has shown 

 (Pr. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, p. 3) the "Cinereus Finch" of Pennant, on which Gmelin named 

 a Fringilla cinerea, from Unalashka, is this bird. 



251. Peu-cae'-a aes-tl-va'-lls. Gr. irevirfi, a pine; supposed to be from VVKU, to prick, in allu- 



sion to the " needles " of this tree. Lat. cestivalis = cestivus, pertaining to summer ; 

 cestas, summer. 



252. P. a. H-lI-nS-en'-sIs. To the State of Illinois, with the termination -ensis, indicating 



locality. Illinois is the French corruption of the name by which the aborigines called 

 themselves Ittini, " the men." 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List ; since described by Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 iv, 1879, p. 219. 



253. P. a. a-rl-zo'-nae. To the Territory of Arizona. Arizona is probably a corruption of 



Orazona, the significance of which is unknown ; but it may be observed that zona is the 

 word in the Opata language for the fruit of the mezcal, a characteristic product of the 

 region. 



