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Young. — Similar to adults, but paler streaks of upper parts more 

 buffy, dusky streaks of under parts less sharply defined, ground color 

 of under parts more buffy, the superciliary stripe usually without 

 yellow anteriorly and finely streaked with dusky. 



Adult male.— h^ngth. (skins), 125.22-146.05 (137.16); wing, 71.17- 

 79.76 (76.96); tail, 50.80-55.88 (52.58); exposed culmen, 11.18-12.70 

 (12.19); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.38 (7.62); tarsus, 22.10-23.11 

 (22.61); middle toe, 15.24-17.02 (16.26).' 



J.c^?i;/maZe.— Length (skins), 123.95-145.80 (133.86); wing, 68.58- 

 77.72 (74.17); tail, 46.99-53.34 (50.29); exposed culmen, 11.18-12.70 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 21.59-22.86 

 (22.10); middle toe, 15.24-16.76 (16,00).' 



Unalaska Island (also Shumagin islands and lower portion of Alaska 

 peninsula?) in summer; in winter, eastward and southward along the 

 coast to British Columbia, more rarely to northern California. 



[Emberiza] sandwichensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 875 (Sandwich Sound, 

 Alaska; based on Sandwich Bunting Latham, Gen. Synopsis Birds, ii, 202) . 



Passerculus sandimchensis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 444; ed. 1860 

 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 28, fig. 2; Oat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 333.— 

 Cooper and SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 199, pi. 28, fig. 2 

 (Fort Steilacoom, Washington, Apr.). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 112, 

 part (Shoal water Bay, Washington). — Brown, Ibis, 1868, 422 (Vancouver 

 I.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 284 (Sitka, 

 Alaska). — Cooper, Orn. CaL, 1870, 180 (Columbia R., winter). — Dall, 

 Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 27 (Unalaska; Shumagins) ; vi, 1874, (5) (Una- 

 laska). — Baird, Bkeweb, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, pi. 24, 

 fig. 9. — EiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 193. — Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, 52.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 151, 172 (Belkoffsky, 

 Alaska peninsula, July 23; Chernoffsky, Unalaska, Oct. 1). — Nelson, Cruise 

 "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 70 (Aleutian Islands) .—Turner, Auk, ii, 1885, 157 

 (Nearer Islands, Aleutian chain; breeding). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 380, part (in synonymy). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 674 part (Unalaska; Brit. Columbia?). 



Passerctdus sandvicensis Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, April, 1880, 97; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 226. 



P-lassercuhis'] sandvicensis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 362. 



[Zonotrichia] sandimchensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 95, no. 7409. 



[Passerculus savanna-1 Var. sandvicensis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 136. 



Passerculus savanna . . var. sandmcensis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 159b. 



Passerculus savanna, var. sandwichensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 538. 



[Passerculus savanna"] c. sandvicensis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 128. 



P.\asserculus'\ savanna sandvicensis Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 

 293 (Crooked R., Oregon, 1 spec. Sept. ). 



Passerculus savanna sandwichensis Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 333. 



Aj)imodramus sandwichensis Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 

 354; xvi, 1893, 664 (Unalaska; Kadiak; Middleton L). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 542. — Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. 

 Alaska, 1886, 173 (Unalaska, Attu, and Atkha islands, Aleutian chain; 



1 Fourteen specimens. '' Seven specimens. 



