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COTURNICULUS SAVANNARUM AUSTRALIS (Mayn.). 
Fringilla passerina Wils., 3, 1811, p. 76, pl. 24, fig. 5. Nomen praeoccupatum. 
M. C. Z. No. 67857. Very probably Wilson’s type. 
SPIZELLA PASSERINA PASSERINA (Bechst.). 
Fringilla socialis Wils., 2, 1810, p. 127, pl. 16, fig. 5. 
M. C. Z. No. 67858. The chestnut crown has the dusky spots of the 
winter plumage, similar to Wilson’s figure. A possible type. 
SPIZELLA PUSILLA PUSILLA (Wils.). 
- Fringilla pusilla Wils., 2, 1810, p. 127, pl. 16, fig. 5. 
M. C. Z. No. 67859. Very likely the type. 
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MELOSPIZA MELODIA MELODIA (Wils.). 
Fringilla melodia Wils., 2, 1810, p. 125, pl. 16, fig. 4. 
M. C. Z. No. 67860. This-specimen is one of those large, heavily 
marked Song Sparrows, of a pronounced rufous tint, such as pass 
through eastern Massachusetts in small numbers in the spring, along 
with the Fox Sparrows. It agrees well with Wilson’s figure, if some 
allowance is made for adapting the bird to its place on the plate. Mr. 
Outram Bangs (Proc. N. E. Zoél. Club, 4, 1912, p. 86) is quite confident 
that it is the individual figured by Wilson. 
MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA (Lath.). 
| Fringilla palustris Wils., 8, 1811, p. 49, pl. 22, fig. 1. 
M. C. Z. No. 67861. In the same plumage as the one described and 
figured by Wilson, with a great deal of blackish colour on the nape. 
Probably the type. 
