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Coast slope of central California (except salt-watfer marshes of San 

 Francisco Baj^), from Santa Cruz County to Humboldt County (north, 

 at least in winter, to Humboldt Ba}'). 



Ammodromus samudis Baied, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, Aug., 1858, 379 (Peta- 



luma, Sonoma Co., California; TJ. S. Nat. Mus.); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 



ix, 1858, 455; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 71, fig. 1; Cat. K. Am. 



Birds, 1859, no. 343.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 191. 

 \_Am7nodromus\ samuelis Ghay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7417. 

 Melospiza melodia, var. samuelis Baird, Beb-sver, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



ii, 1874, 26, pi. 27, fig. 7. 

 [Melospiza meloda] var. samuelis Hexshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, July, 1879, 



157, 160 (crit.); Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298, 299 (crit.). 

 Melospiza melodia samuelis Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1883, 328.— 



Oeeeholsee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 183. 

 M.[elospiza] fasciata samuelis Ridg^-ay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii. Mar. 27,1880, 



3; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 431, part. 

 Melospiza fasciata samuelis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180; 



Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 231c.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 249, 



part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 581d, 



part.— TowNSEND, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 219 (Eel R., Humboldt Co., 



California, 1 spec. Dec), 

 if. lelospizal f. [asciatal samuelis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed. , 1884, 372, part. 

 [Melospiza fasciata.} Subsp. x- Melospiza samuelis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. !JIu9., 



xii, 1888, 705, part (Oakland, Presidio, and Nicasio, California). 

 Melospiza gouldii Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 479 (California; U. S. 



Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 70, fig. 2; Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, no. 365.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 113 (California).— 



Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 212, in text under M. heermanni. 

 [Zoiiotrichia'] gouldii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 64, no. 7390. 

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

 Melospiza melodia . . . var. gouldii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169e. 

 [Melospiza melodia'] d. gouldii Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139 (synonymy). 

 Melospiza melodia gouldii McGregor, Bull. Coop. Orn. Club, i, no. 5, Sept. to Oct. 



(pub. Sept.), 1899, 87, in text. 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA PUSILLULA Ridgway. 

 ALAUESA SONG SPARROW, 



Most like M. c. samuelis, but still smaller, the wings and tail 

 decidedly so; coloration much less rusty, the general color of upper 

 parts olive-grayish, the black dorsal streaks not distinctl3', if at all, 

 margined with rustj^ brown, the lateral crown-sti'ipes and wings less 

 distinctly rufescent, under parts more heavily streaked (streaks usu- 

 ally wholly black) and flanks paler fulvous; under parts usuallj^ more 

 or less tinged with j^ellowish. Young much paler and grayer than that 

 of M. c. sai/iuelis, with the broad black streaks on back and scapulars 

 much more strongly contrasted with the ground color; ground color 

 of under parts dull yellowish white or pale yellowish buff, without 

 brownish tinge on breast or sides. 



