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NOUTH A MKIIK'AX ■ 151 UDS. 



of castaneous. Tlie white beneath much liiiged with ashy; ju;^'iihiin-spots hlcinlcd, and 

 of a st'pia-hrowii tint. Win<r, .'{.oo; tail, '.lAHi; hill .U from nostril, autl .'!') ilei-p at l)iL»e. 

 IIah. Northwest coast, rroin iJritish Coliunliia northward. (Sitka.) 



Tlie ahove chaiacters are those of a huge series ut" Hpeeinu'iis from Sitka, 

 ami a few points along the coast to ihe soiithwanl ami iiortliwanl, an«l 

 represent the average features of a iiup which is intermediate between 

 ynUat(( and iiisif/)n's, in ai>i)earanet^ as well as in h.d»itat. Tr.ieing this 

 variety toward the Colinnhia IJiver, it gradually passes into the former, and 

 northward into the latter. 



"We have no distinctive information relative to the hahits of this race. 



Melospiza melodia, var. insignis, Daird. 



XODIAK BONO SPABBOW. 



1 Frliuiilla ciiittra, (J.MKi.is', I, 17^8, 1»22 ^biisrd on Cincroous Fiiu-h, Lath. II, 274). — 

 rKNN. Are. Zool. 11, t>8 ^I'lialaschka). Eiubcfiza citirrra, Honai'. Coiisp. 18;'»0, 47S, 

 M,ht,ynza insujins, Uaiki», Tniiis. Chiciigo Awul. I, ii, 18»>0, p. oV.\ \\\. xxix, tig. 2. — 

 1)aix& IUnnistku, do. p. 285. — Finsch, Ahh. Nat. Ill, 1872, 44 'Kodiak). 



Sp. Ciiar. Smnmer jihimage (52,477 <J, Kodiak, May 24, 1808). Ahove brownish- 

 pluinhcous, outer suri'are of wings somewhat more lirown, the gnjater coverts slightly 

 rufeseent. Interscapulars with medial hroad but ol>solete streaks of sepia-brown ; crown 

 and upper tail-eoverts with more sharply defined and narrower dusky .^haft-streaks. 

 Crown without medial light line. I'eneath irrayisji-white, mueh obscure«l by browni.^h- 

 ])lumbeous laterally. A whitish supraloral space, but no apj)reciable superciliary stripe ; a 

 whitish maxillary stripe; beneath it an irregular one of dusky .><epia; irregular streaks of 

 dark gri/.zly-sepia on breast and along sides, blended into a broad crescent across the 

 jugulum. Wing, 3.;>0; tail, o.'jO ; bill, .48 from nostril, .28 deep at base, and .21 in the 

 middle, the middle of the culmen being mueh depressed, its extremity rather abruptly 

 decurved. 



Autumnal phuhfif/e (00,102, Kodiak, received from Dr. J. F. Brandt). Differs very 

 remarkably in appearance li-om the preceding. The pattern of coloration is everywhere 

 ])lainly })lotted, there being a distinct vertical ami sharply defined superciliary stripe. 

 Ground-color above ashy, somewhat overlaid by rusty, except on the sides of the neck. 

 Whole crown, outer surface of wings, and dorsal streaks, rusty rufous; black streaks on 

 crown and upper tail-coverts obsolete. Beneath pme white medially, the markings rusty 

 rufous. Wing, 3.30; tail, 3.00 ; bill, .47 .and .30. 

 Hab. Kodiak and TJnalaschka. 



This race represents the extreme extent of variation in the species, and it 

 woidd he dithciilt for a species to proceed farther fr«)mthe normal standard; 

 imieed, the present bird is so different even in form, especially of bill, from 

 rndodia, that, were it not for the perfect series connecting them, few natural- 

 ists would hesitate to place them in different genera. 



Habits. No information has so far been published in reference to the 

 nesting ^f this Sparrow, or of any peculiar habits. 



