372 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Melospiza melodia cleonensis ^IcGeegok, Bull. Ooop. Orn. Club., i, no. 5, Sept. to 

 Oct. (pub. Sept.), 1899, 87 (Westport, Mendocino Co., n. California; colL 

 K. C. McGregor). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA MORPHNA (Oberholser). 

 RUSTY SONG SPARROW. 



Similar in coloration to M. c. cleonensis, but much larger and colors 

 more uniform above, the rusty brown or chestnut streaks on back, etc., 

 less stronglj' contrasted with the rusty olive ground color and the black 

 mesial streaks less distinct (often obsolete); under parts with the chest- 

 nut streaks on chest, etc. , usually without blackish shaft-streaks, and the 

 flanks olivaceous rather than tawny. Young, slightly rufescent bister 

 brown above, the back streaked with blackish; beneath dull whitish or 

 very pale buffy grayish, the chest, sides, and flanks more or less 

 tinged with buffy or pale fulvous and streaked with sooty brownish. 



A3uU mafe.— Length (skins), 144.53-164.08 (152.65); wing, 64.77- 

 71.37 (67.82); tail, 60.71-72.90 (66.04); exposed culmen, 11.94-13.72 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 21.59-23.62 

 (22.86); middle toe, 16.00-18.03 (17.02).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 141.73-157.23 (149.61); wing, 62.23- 

 68.58 (65.02); tail, 57.91-67.82 (62.99); exposed culmen, 11.43-13.21 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 21.84-23.62 

 (22.61); middle toe, 14.99-17.78 (16.51).^ 



Breeding from extreme southern portion of Alaska through Bi'itish 

 Columbia (including Vancouver Island) to western Oregon (north of 

 Rogue River Mountains); in winter, south to southern Calif ornia (Fort 

 Tejon, etc.). 



Fringilla cinerea (not Gmelin) Audubox, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 22, pi. 390, fig. 1 

 (Columbia R. ; upper California); Synopsis, 1839, 119; Birds Am., oct. ed., 

 iii, 1841,.145, pi. 187. 



Passerella cinerea Bonapakte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. 



[Passerella] cinerea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 477. 



Zonotrichia cinerea Hebrmann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1852, 266- 

 (California). 



Fringilla guttata (not Vieillot, 1817) Nuttall, Man. Orn, U. S. and Canada, 2d 

 ed., i, 1840, 581 (Columbia R., etc.). 



Zonotrichia guttata Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 50 (Cali- 

 fornia). 



Z. [onotrichia'] gutatta Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 373. 



Melospiza guttata Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 

 27, fig. 12.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 391 (Calaveras Co., 

 California). 



[Melospiza melodia.l Var. guttata, OouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



[Melospiza melodial var. guttata Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 18/9, 298, 

 299 (crit.). 



Melospiza melodia . . . var. guttata Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 1696. 



^Twenty specimens. ^Thirteen specimens. 



