NO. 17 A NEW RACE OF SONG SPARROW VVETiMORE 3 



This identification incidentally adds another bird to the list of those 

 known from Florida. 



The bird of tlic mountain area selected as the type locality of M. m. 

 cuphonia is distinctly darker than specimens from the lowland regions 

 of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. As birds from this 

 area are close to euphonia, for the present I identify them as of that 

 race, though it appears that with more material they may be dis- 

 tinguished as distinct. The name cupJwuia will therefore for the 

 present at least replace heata as given in the fourth edition of the 

 A. O. U. Check-list of North American Birds (page 357). 



The typical series of cuphonia includes, in addition to a number of 

 skins from the Cranberry Glades, specimens from Cheat Mountain 

 above Cheat Bridge, and Middle Mountain 12 miles northeast of 

 Durbin, in West Virginia. Breeding birds from White Pine, Rocks- 

 dale, Philippi, Big Bend, Zela, Drennen, and Muddlety, W. Va., are 

 intermediate toward the lighter, lowland group. The mountain bird 

 extends into Virginia at Pulaski and is the form of White Top Moun- 

 tain, where with Dr. J. J. Murray I found it in Elk Garden at an 

 elevation of 4,400 feet at the head of Big Helton Creek. Specimens 

 secured by Dr. Murray and me near Sturgills, Jefferson, and Warrens- 

 ville, N. C, and Independence, Va., are also this form. Birds from 

 Shawsville and Christiansburg, Va., are intermediate toward melodia, 

 as is one from Lexington, Va., and another from Lost River near 

 McCauley, W. Va., but are best identified from the few skins at hand 

 as cuphonia. A skin from Halltown, W. Va., seems to represent true 

 melodia. 



To the north I find that breeding specimens from Sayre and Silver 

 Lake, Pa., and Canandaigua Lake, N. Y., are also to be identified as 

 the race cuphonia. 



It may be noted that in common with other races of the song 

 sparrow in the East, cupliouia shows a distinctly rufescent phase in 

 many individuals. A breeding bird that I collected personally at the 

 type locality in the Cranberry Glades has the brown markings (auburn 

 in color) predominating over any other shade on the dorsal surface. 



It has seemed appropriate to me to name this new race euphonia 

 from the cheerful song common to all races of the song sparrow 

 throughout its extensive range. 



