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Rocky Mountain district of the United States west to and including 

 the Sierra Nevada, in California; north to eastern Oregon, southern 

 Idaho, and southern Montana; south in winter to western Texas (Fort 

 Clark, etc.) and northern Mexico (States of Coahuila, Chihuahua, and 

 Sonora). 



Zonotrichia fasciata {not Fringillafaxciidii Gmelin) Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., i, 1847, 49, part (New Mexico). 



Melospiza fasciala Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1.SS8, 701, part (Fort Kla- 

 math, e. Oregon; Pine Grove, etc., Wyoming; Sacramento, California). 



Melospiza melodia (not Fringilla melodia Wilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 477, part (Boca Grande, INIexico), 927 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming) ; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 16 (Boca (.xrande); Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 363, part— Coues, Ibis, 1865, 165, in text (Fort Whip- 

 ple, Arizona). — Allen, Bull. Jlus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 149 (Colorado City, 

 Colorado), 157 (South Park, Colorado), 168 (Ogden, Utah), 177 (Ogden, 

 Utah, etc.).— HoLDEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 200 (Sherman, 

 Wyoming). 



Melospiza faUa.v (not Zoaolrichia falkix Baird, 18.i4) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 481, part (Fort Thorn, New Mexico; Fort Tejon, California); 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 367, part.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1859, 192 (FortTejon, California).— (?) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 113 

 (California) .— Coues, Proc. Xc. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S66, 88 (Fort Whipple, Ari- 

 zona). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 215, part (inch fig. of head). — Stevenson, 

 Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1871 (1872), 465 (Green R., etc., Wyo- 

 ming).— JIerriam, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872 (1873), 682 (Ogden, 

 Utah; North Fork and Fort Hall, s. e. Idaho). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridq- 

 WAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 27, fig. 10 (Nevada). 



\_Melospiza melodia.'] Yar. /aHfw; Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139, part. 



Melospiza melodia . var. fallax Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169a, part. — Ridg- 

 wAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 183 (Colorado). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. 

 Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 62 (Denver, Colorado), 81 (Fort Garland, Colo- 

 rado), 117 (Fort Bayard, New Mexico); Annot. List Birds Utah, 1874, 6; 

 Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 281, part (localities in Utah, Colorado, 

 New Mexico, and Arizona). 



[Melospiza melodia'] yar. fallax Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 299 

 (crit). 



Melospiza melodia, yar. fallax Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 22, part.— Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 340. (Fort 

 Bridger, Wyoming).— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 119 (Camp 

 Harney, e. Oregon, resident). 



[Melospiza melodia] b. fallax Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139, part (synonymy). 



Melospiza melodia fallax Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 19, 20 (West 

 Humboldt and Ruby Mts., Nevada). 



M.[elospiza] melodia fallax Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 299 

 (Carson, Nevada). 



Melospiza fasciata, r- fallax Ridgway, Field and Forest, ii. May, 1877, 198 (Colo- 

 rado); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 66 (Calaveras Co., California).— 

 Ridgway and Bblding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 417 (Maryaville and 

 Sacramento, California, winter). 



[Melospiza fasciata.] y. fallax Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 482, 483, 

 excl. syn., part (localities in Nevada and Utah). 



Melospiza fasciata, y. fallax Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 198 (Colo- 

 rado) . 



