BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 357 



Antonio, Texas, winter) .—D wight, Auk, x, 1893, 12 (Prince Edward I., 

 breeding).— NuTTixG, Bull. Lab. N. H. Univ. Iowa, ii, no. 3, 1893, 276 (Lower 

 Saskatchewan, abundant).— Uleet and W.vllace, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895, 

 155 (Wabash, Indiana, breeding).— Thornb, Auk, xii, 1895, 217 (Fort Keogh, 

 Montana, Apr. 17).— H.vdley, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1897, 190 (Richmond, 

 Wayne Co., Indiana, resident).— Butlek, Birds Indiana, 1897, 967 (breed- 

 ing in Dearborn, Brown, Monroe, Putnam, Vigo, Sullivan, and Knox' 

 counties northward).— Allison, Auk, xvi, 1899, 269 (Madison Co., Jlissis- 

 sippi, breeding?). 



M.lelospiza'] fmciata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 371.— Eidgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 431 . 



Fringilla melodia Wilsox, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 125, pi. 16, fig. 4 (Canada to 

 Georgia).— BoNAP.\RTE, Synopsis, 1828, 108.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 

 125; V, 1839,507, pi. 25; Synopsis, 1839, 120; Birds Am., oct. ed., ill, 1841, 

 147, pi. 189.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 486. 



F.[nngilla'] melodia Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., vi, 1858, 275 (Pennsylvania, 

 etc.). 



Emberiza? melodia Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 269, pi. 16, fig. 4. 



Zonotrichia melodia Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. 



Z. [onotrichia} melodia Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 373. 



[Zonotrichia'] melodia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 478, part. — Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7387. 



Melospiza melodia Baied, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1S58, 477, part (excl. spec, 

 from Boca Grande, Blexico); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 363.— Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 113 (Philadelphia; Canada).— Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 

 7 (Forks of the Saskatchewan, Apr. 23).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 ii, 1871, 279 (e. Florida, winter); iii, 1872, 177, part (e. Kansas). — Coues, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, 22 (Fort Macon, North Carolina, breed- 

 ing); Check List, 1873, no. 169; Birds N. W., 1874, 138, part; Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 596 (Turtle Mt., North Dakota).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 19, pi. 27, fig, 

 6.— Mereiam, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 87 (St. Johns R., Florida).— Lang- 

 don, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 8 (resident); Revised List, 1879, 10 (do.). — 

 Beewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 120 (descr. young).— Merrill, 

 Proc. U.. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 127 (Fort Brown, Texas, Dec, Feb.).— Brown, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 8 (Coosada, Alabama, winter). — Mearns, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 35 (Hudson R. Valley, resident).— Ma ynard, 

 Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 115. 



[Melospiza] melodia Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



M.lelospiza] melodia Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 109, 152 (n. e. Illinois, 

 Mar. to Oct.). 



Melospiza melodia melodia Obeeholser, Auk, xvi, Apr., 1899, 183. 



[Melospiza melodia] var. melodia Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 18. 



[Melospiza melodia] a. melodia Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 138 (synonymy). 



M.[elospiza] meloda Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, July, 1879, 156, 160 

 (crit.).— Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 97, in text. 



Melospiza meloda Coues (in McChesney), Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 V, 1879, 76 (Fort Sisseton, South Dakota). — Roberts and Benner, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, v, 1880, 14 (Grant and Traverse counties, Minnesota, breeding). — 

 Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxii, 1883, 376 (Gut of Canso and Gasp6, 

 Gulf St. Lawrence). 



'From my own experience I consider the last doubtful; certainly the species does 

 not breed as far south in Knox County as the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. 



