ORDER PASSERES. 



279 



[B_,C—,R 230^,0256.] 



IIab. Southern New Mexico and Southern Arizona, south into 

 Mexico. 



580^. Peucaea ruficeps eremceca Brown. 



Rock Sparrow. 



Peucaa rjtficeps eremceca Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI. VII. Jan. 

 1882, 26. 



[B _ C — , R — , C — .] 

 Hab. Southwestern I'exas, 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 363, 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. 



.581^. Melospiza fasciata fallax (Baird). 

 Desert Song Sparrow. 



Zonotrichia fallax Baird, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1854, 1 19 



(nee Melospiza fallax auctorum plurimorum !). 

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



[B 367, C i6(.) a, part^ R 231 a, part, C 245, /«/-/.] 



Hab. New Mexico and Arizona. 



b?>\b. Melospiza fasciata montana Hensh. 



Mountain Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza fasciata motitana Henshaw, Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 



