374 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult //irtZtf.— Length (skins), 148.69-173.99 (159.51);' wing, 66.80- 

 76.71 (72.14); tail, 66.04-73.66 (70.10); exposed culmen, 12.19-1'2.70 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.37 (7.11); tarsus, 22.86-24.64 

 " (23.88); middle toe, 17.27-17.78 (17.53).^ 



Adult female.— l^^r^gtV (skins), 139.70-152.40 (144.78); wing, 64.01- 

 70.36 (67.06); tail, 58.42-70.10 (63.50); exposed culmen, 10.67-12.70 

 (12.19); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.37 (7.11); tarsus, 22.35-24.38 

 (23.11); middle toe, 16.26-17.78 (17.02).' 



Southern Alaska (islands and coast); north to Cross Sound, Glacier 

 Bay, Ljmn Canal, etc. ; south to north side of Dixon Entrance, in win- 

 ter to coast of British Columbia, Vancouver Island, and northwestern 

 Washington (Olympic Mountains). 



[Passfj-eZia] rv.fi'm, Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, July 15, 1850, 477 (Sitka, Alaska; 

 ex " JJmiema TTt^raa Brandt, Desc. Av. Eossic, 1836, tab. ii, 5'"). 



Passerella rufina Baied, in Stansbury's Eep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 331 (Sitka). 



Melospiza rufina (not of Baird) Dall and Bannistee, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 

 1869, 285 (Sitka). 



[Zonotrichia:] rufina Gbay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 9388. 



[Melospiza melodia.l Var. rufina CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



Melospiza melodia . . . var. rufina Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169c. 



Melospiza melodia, var. rufina Baied, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 29, pi. 27, fig. 11. 



(?) Melospiza melodia rufina Finsch, Journ. fiirOrn., 1883, 271 (Chilcoot, Alaska, 

 Jan. 30; crit.).— Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 328.— Obeehol- 

 SEE, Auk, xvi, 1899, 183. 



[Melospiza meloda] var. rufina Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, July, 1879, 

 159, 160 (crit.); Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv.,1879, 298,299 (crit.). 



[Melospiza melodia} g. rufina Coves, Birds N, W., 1874, 139 (synonymy). 



M.[elospiza'] fasciata rufina B.iiiGv: AY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii. Mar. 27, 1880, 3; 

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



Melospiza fasciata rufina Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180, 

 217; Npm. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 231«.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 247.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., v, 1882, 152, part (Port Althorp, 

 Georges I., Alaska, breeding). — (?)ANTHONy, Auk, iii, 1886, 169 (Washing- 

 ton Co., Oregon, winter). — Ameeican Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 581/.— Nelson, Eep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 192, part 

 (Sitka).— (?)Fannin, Check List, Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 37 (resident on 

 coast of mainland). — Geinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 128 (Sitka). 



M.[elospiza'\ f.[ascmta'\ rufina Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 372. 



[Melospiza fasciata.'] Subsp. S. Melospiza rufina Shahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 706, part (in synonymy). 



Melospiza guttata (not Fringilla guttata Nuttall) FixscH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., 

 iii, 1872, 41 (Sitka). 



^Five specimens, two with sex not determined, but almost certainly males. 

 ^Thirteen specimens, few of them with sex not determined, but probably females. 

 ' Sharpe gives the same citation of Brandt with the addition of "pi. 215." 



