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MELOSPIZA CINEREA CAURINA Ridgway. 

 YAKTJTAT SONG SPAKROW, 



Similar to M. c. rufina but witla decidedly longer and more slender 

 bill and grayer coloration; the superciliary stripe, middle portion of 

 auricular region, sides of neck, hindneck, and edges of interscapulars 

 decidedly gray, in more or less strong contrast with the brown mark- 

 ings; streaks on chest, etc. , dark seal brown, and ground color of flanks 

 olive-grayish. Young, above deep grayish brown or sooty brown, 

 the back broadly and distinctly streaked with black or sooty black; 

 pileum dark sooty brown with a very indistinct median streak of sooty 

 grayish; streaks on chest, etc., sooty blackish. 



AdAilt TOaZ<?.— Length (skins), 144.78-165.10 (153.92); wing, 70.87- 

 73.66 (72.39); tail, 63.50-71.37 (67.06); exposed culmen, 12.70-14.22 

 (13.21); depth of bill at base, 6.35-6.86 (6.60); tarsus, 22.86-25.15 

 (23.88); middle toe, 16.76-18.29 (17.78).^ 



Adult female.— LLQ^g\h (skins), 146.05-160.78 (152.15); wing, 67.31- 

 70.61 (68.83); tail, 62.48-66.55 (64.77); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.97 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 6.10-7.11 (6.60); tarsus, 22.61-23.88 

 (23.11); middle toe, 16.76-18.03 (17.27). '^ 



Coast of the St. Elias district of Alaska, from Yakutat Bay to Lituya 

 Bay. 



, Melospizafasciata rufina (not Passerella mfina Bonaparte) Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. 



Coll. Alaska, 1887, 192, part (Lituya Bay). 

 Uelospiza fasdata caurina Ridgway, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 36 (Yakutat, Alaska; 



U.S.NatMus.). 

 Melospiza melodia caurina Obeeholser, Auk, xvi, Apr, 1899, 183. 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA KENAIENSIS Ridgway. 

 EENAI SONQ SPARROW. 



Intermediate between M. c. caurina and M. c. insignis; larger 

 than the former, with upper parts more uniform in color (streaks on 

 back, etc., less distinct); smaller and browner than the latter, with 

 streaks on chest, etc. , darker. Young, much resembling that of M. c. 

 insignis, but more heavily streaked below; much paler and browner 

 above than young of M. c. caurina, with streaks on back much nar- 

 rower, those on chest, etc. , much browner. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 160.02-168.15 (164.08); wing, 76.71- 

 80.01 (78.23); tail, 72.14-72.64 (72.39); exposed culmen, 13.21-14.22 

 (13.72); depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.62 (7.37); tarsus, 25.91; middle 

 toe, 18.54-19.05 (18.80).= 



Adult fe7nale.— Length (skin), 164.59; wing, 78.28; tail, 75.44; 

 exposed culmen, 13.97; tarsus, 25.40; middle toe, 18.03.* 



'Ten specimens ^ Five specimens. 'Two specimens. * One specimen. 



