Fill N (J ILLl D.E — Til E Fl N ( ' 1 1 ES. 



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b. Stroaks, above and below, not sharply dclincd, and without blaek 

 medially. 



Above rufes(;ont-olive, the darker shades castaneous ; streaks be- 

 neath castaneous-rufous. Win.L', 2.(50; tail, 2.oO; bill, .35 and .23. 

 Hub. Paeiiic Province from British ColumVtia, sonthwanl . \x\\\ (juttaio . 



Above sepia-plumbeDUs, the darker shades luliirinous-sepia ; 

 streaks beneath rnli<,'inous-s»'pia. Wing-, 3.00; tail, 3.00 ; bill, .41 

 and .25. Hah. Pa«ilie Province from British Columbia northward. 



var. rnfinn. 

 Above plinnbeons, the darker markinrrs dull reddish-sojiia in 

 winter, clovc-l)rown in summer; streaks beneath castaneous-i-iifous 

 in winter, dull sepia in sunmier. Win<j:, 3.40; tail, 3.00; bill, ..50 

 and .30. n((h. Pacific coit<t of Alaska (Kodiak, etc.) . var. in sign is, 



2. M. lineolni. White of the lower parts interrutped by a broad pectoral 

 band of bud ; streaks on the juirulum, etc., narrow linear. A vertex and 

 superciliary Stripe of ashy ; a maxillary one of buff. Winjr, 2.0O; tail, 2.40 ; 

 bill, .30 and .25. Hab. Whole of .North America , .Nouth, in winter, to 

 Panama. 



Lower parts without streaks (except in young.) 



3. M. palustrib. Jugulum and nape tinged with a.shy ; outer surface of 

 wings bright casianeous, in strong contr.ast with the olivaceous of the back ; 

 dorsal streaks l»road, black, without rufous externally ; a superciliary and 

 maxillary stripe of ashy. ^. Crown uniform chestnut, forehead black. 9* 

 Crown similar, but divided by an indi^tinct a.shy stni)e, and more or less 

 streaked with black (autuiunal or winter ^ similar). Jnv. Head, back, 

 and jugulum streaked with black on a yellowish-white ground ; black prc- 

 vailinor on the crown. Hab. Eastern Province of North America. 



Melospiza melodia, Baird. 



SONG SPASBOW. 



Fringilla melodia, "Wil.son, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 125, pi. xvi, f. 4. — Ltcht. Verz. 1823, 

 m. 2^9. — Am. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 126; V, .107, pi. 25. — In. Syn. 1839, 120.— 

 1b. P>irds Am. Ill, 1841, 147, pi. clxxxix. — Max. ("ab. J. VI, 1858, 275. Zonotrichia 

 viflodia. Box. List, 1838. — In. ConsiM-ctus, 185n, 478. i ( FruujiUa fasciata, Gmi.lix, 

 Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922. — NtTTALL, Man. I, (2d cd.,) 1840, 562. n Fruujilla 

 hiinnnlis, Gmklin, Sy.st. Nat. I, 1788, 922. Mr/onpiza melodia, Bauu), Birds N. Am. 

 1858, 477. — Samikls, 321. 



Sp. Char. General tint of upper parts rufous and distinctly streaked with rufous-brown, 

 dark-brown, and ashy-gray. The crown is rufous, w;Mi asupeniliary and median stripe of 

 dull gray, the former lighter ; nearly white anteriorly, where it sometimes has a faint 

 shade of yellow, principally in autumn ; each feather of the crown with a narrow streak 

 of black forming about six narrow lines. Interscapulars black in the centre, then rufous, 

 then pale grayish on the margin, these three colors on each feather very sharply con- 

 trasted. Rump grayer than upper tail-coverts, both with obsolete dark streaks. There is 



middle toe without claw, .68. This may po.ssibly be the M. pectoral i'i of von Midler. The de- 

 scription cited above, however, does not agree with the specimen under consideration. The pec- 

 toral spots are expix's.sly stated to be brown, not even a black shaft-streak being mentioned, 

 whei-eas the pure black spots of the specimen before us render it peculiar in this resi)ect, being, 

 in fact, its cliief characteristic. 



