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(?) Mrlospiza pectoralis von Muller, Keise in Mexico, iii, 1865, 583 (table-land 



of Mexico) ; Syst. Verz. Wirb. Mex., 49. 

 Mdospha melodia, var. mexicana Eidgway, inBaird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 18, footnote (Puebla, Mexico;. U. S. ^'at. Mus.). 

 \_Melo8piza melodia] e. mexicana Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139. 

 [Melosiriza meloda] var. me.ricana Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Olub., iv, 1879, 158, 



160 (crit.) ; Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298, 299 (crit). 

 Melos2>ha melodia me.ricana Obeeholsbk, Auk, xvi, Apr., 1899, 183. 

 Melospiza fuKciata me.ricaita Feekaei-Peeez and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



ix, Sept. 15, 1886, 144 (Huexotilta, Puebla; crit.). 

 M.\_cloqnza'] fasciata mexicaim Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 432. 

 [^Melospizal heermanni (not of Baird) Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 



1873, 32 (Mexico). 

 Melospiza hecnnanvi Salvix and Goumax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves., i, 1886, 388, 



excl. syn., part (valley of IMexico; Puebla). 

 [Melonpiza fascinta.} Subsp. p. Melospiza heermanni Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



jMus., xii, 1888, 704, part (s. Mexico; Puebla). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA ADUSTA (Nelson). 

 MICHOACAN SONG SPARROW. 



Similar to 2L c. mereicana, but color much more rusty brown above, 

 the general color of the upper parts being bright russet- brown instead 

 of olive-brown. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 142.24; wing, 67.31; tail. 61.21; exposed 

 culmen, 12.19; tarsus, 23.37; middle toe, 15.75. 



Afhilt ,^//;^/A'.— Length (skin), 128.27; wing, 66.04; tail, 58.67; 

 exposed culmen, 11.43; depth of bill at base, 6.60; tarsus, 22.86; 

 middle toe, 15.49. 



Southwestern edge of Mexican plateau, in State of Michoacaii (Patz- 

 cuaro). 



Melospiza adasta Nelson, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 28 (Patzcuaro, Michoacan, s. w. 



Mexico; U. S. Nat. ]Mus. ). 

 Melospiza melodia adnxta Oeerholsee, Auk, xvi, A]ir., 1899, 183: 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA GOLDMANI (Nelson). 

 DURANGO SONG SPARROW. 



Somewhat like M. c. onontana but much larger, and darker and 

 more uniform in coloration of upper parts, which are nearly uniform 

 bister brown, the back narrowly streaked with blackish and tinged 

 with more rusty brown; the upper tail-covcrts without distinct (if 

 any) dusky mesial streaks; triangular spots of chest, etc., blackish 

 brown; streaks on sides and flanks rusty brown. Young bister brown- 

 ish above, the back and scapulars rather broadly, but not sharply, 

 streaked with brownish black; under parts grayish white, the chest 

 narrowly streaked with graj'ish dusky and dusky brown. 



