364 BULLETIN 50., UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Mountain districts of southern Lower California (along water 

 courses of Comondu Caiion, latitude 36°; Los Dolores). 



ildospka fasdala rimlaris Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. , 2d ser., i, Sept. 29, 1888, 

 197 (Comondu, Lower California; coll. AV. E. Bryant); ii, 1889, 22 (descr. 

 nest and eggs).— American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, 1889, 13; Abridged Check List, 1889, and 2d ed., 1896, no. bSlg.— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 604. 



Melospiza melodia rindaris Obv^bmo-lseh, Auk, xvi, Apr., 1899, 183. 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA HEERMANNI (Baird). 

 HEERHAITN'S SONG SPARROW. 



Simikr to M. c. melodia but smaller and coloration much darker 

 and browner, the black streaks on back, etc. , averaging broader, and 

 streaks on chest, etc., darker (black or brownish black in summer); 

 young similar to that of M. c. melod/ia but deeper tawny brown above 

 with black streaks on back broader, the under parts more or less tinged 

 with brownish buff, especially on chest, where the dusky streaks are 

 broader. 



Adult w«fe.— Length (skins), 129.o-J-160.2Y (144.27); wing, 61.47- 

 71.12 (64.77); tail, 59.69-70.87 (64.26); exposed culmen, 11.43-13.46 

 (12.45)-, depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.38 (7.62); tarsus, 21.34-24.13 

 (22.35); middle toe, 1499-16.76 (16.00).' 



AJhU ferncdt'.—Le>ng{h (skins), 138.68-143.26 (140.97); wing, 60.96- 

 63.75 (62.74); tail, 57.15-65.53 (62.74); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.70 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.89 (8.13); tarsus, 20.32-22.86 

 (21.84); middle toe, 14.99-15.75 (15.49).' 



Central valleys of California, including lower levels of the Sacra- 

 mento and San Joaquin basins. 



(?) ZonotricJdi i fasciata (not Fringilla fasdata Gmelin) Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 49, part (California). 



Melospiza heermanni Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 478 (Tejon Valley, 

 California; '^ U. S. Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 70, fig. 1; 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 364.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 

 192, part (Fort Tejon) .—Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 212, part. 



[Zonotrichia] heermanni Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7389. 



{Melospiza melodia.] Var. heermannii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



Melospiza melodia . . var. heermanni CouES, Check List, 1^73, no. 169d. 



[Melospiza melodia} c. heermanni Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 139, part (synonymy). 



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

 Birds, ii, 1874, 24, part. 



Melospiza melodia heermanni RinGW AY, Bull. Essex Inst., Oct., 1874, 171 (Sacra- 

 mento, California, breeding). 



' Seventeen specimens. 



^ Four spei'imens. 



"A winter specimen; no. 6227, adult male. 



