BIEDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 373 



\_Melospiza ihelodia.] f. guttata Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 139 (synonjTny). 



Melospiza melodia, var. guttata Baikd, Bkewee, and Rid6t\-ay, Hist. X. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 27. 



M.l^dospiza^ melodia guttata Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 299 (e. 

 Oregon, Sept., Oct.). 



\_Melosp%za meloda'] var. guttata Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, July, 1879, 

 158, 160 (crit). 



Melospiza fasciata, /3. guttata Eidgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, Apr., 1S7S, 66 

 (Murphys, Calaveras Co., California, Mar.). 



Melospiza fasdata, y. guttata Ridgivay and Belding, Proc. U". S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 Mar. 21, 1879, 417 (centr. California, winter). 



M. lelospizal fasdata guttata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Mar. 27, 1880, 3; 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 432. 



Melospiza fasdata guttata 'RiDGV.-A.Y, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880,180, 

 217; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 231fi.— Coues, Checli List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 246.— Bkewstee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 229 (Walla AValla, Wash- 

 ington; crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 581e. — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 169 (Washington Co., Oregon, resident). — 

 (?) Emekson, Zoe, i, 1890, 45 (Hay wards, Alameda Co., California, Nov. 23, 

 1882).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 147 (Ashcroft, etc., British 

 Columbia, resident; crit.). — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 37 

 (coast, incl. Vancouver I.). — Lawkence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 45 (Grays 

 Harbor, Washington). — Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 63 (coast 

 British Columbia). 



il.lelospiza} flasdata] guttata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 872. 



Melospiza rufina (not Emheriza rufina Brandt) Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858,480; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 366.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, s. California).— Sclatee, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862,113 (California). — Coopee and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1860,204 (Puget Sound, etc.; habits).— Brown, Ibis, 1868,422 (Van- 

 couver I.). — CooPEE, Orn. Cal., 1870, 214 ("resident in the higher Sierra 

 Nevada"). 



[Melospiza fasdata.] Subsp. S. Melospiza rufina Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 31us., 

 ' xii, 1888, 706, part (chiefly) . 



Melospiza fasdata rufina Fishee, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 100 (Boulder Creek, 

 California, Oct. 13). 



Melospiza fallax (not of Baird) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 235 

 (Vancouver I.). 



Melospiza melodia morphna Obeeholsee, Auk, xvi, Apr., 1899, 183 (substitute 

 subspecific name for guttata, preoccupied). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA RUFINA (Brandt). 

 SOOTY SONG SPARROW. 



Similar to M. c. morphna but decidedlj- larger (except bill), with 

 coloration darker (sooty rather than rustj^), and more uniform above; • 

 general color of upper parts deep sooty brown or bister, brightening 

 into imsty brown or chestnut on outer webs of greater wing-coverts 

 and tertials, the back obsoletelj^ streaked with darker, and the median 

 crown-stripe indistinct or obsolete; streaks on chest, etc., deep prouts 

 brown. (Young not 8een.) 



