376 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Coast of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, from east side of Cook Inlet 

 (Port Graham, Fort Alexander, etc.) to Prince William Sound (Vir- 

 gin Bay). 



(?) Melospiza insignU (not of Baird) Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., iii, 1872, 44 



( Alexandre vsk, Alaska'). 

 Melospiza fasciaia rufina (not Passerella ™/ina Bonaparte) Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., V, 1882, 152, part (Graham Harbor, Cook Inlet, Alaska, breeding.; 



crit.). 

 Melospiza f. "rufina" from Cook Inlet, Alaska, Richmond, Auk, xii, 1895, 148 



(crit.). 

 Melospiza cinerea (not FringiUa cijierea Gmelin) Turnee, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 



1886, 174, part (Cook Inlet). 

 Melospiza melodia kenaiensis Eidgway, Auk, xvii, Jan., 1900, 29 (Port Graham, 



Cook Inlet, Alaska; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA INSIGNIS (Baird). 

 K4DIAK SONG SPARROW. 



Similar to M. c. kenaiensis but larger, with longer bill and grayer 

 coloration ; the pileum much grayer and more uniform in color. Young 

 similar to that of 2£. c. kenaiensis, but rather paler and grayer above, 

 with pileum decidedly so. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 170.18-187.45 (181.10); wing, 78.71- 

 86.11 (81.79); tail, 73.91-82.80 (80.26); exposed culmen, 14.48-16.00 

 (15.49); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.37 (7.11); tarsus, 25.40-26.67 

 (25.91); middle toe, 18.29-20.07 (19.30).' 



Adadt female.— Length (skins), 175.51-184.15 (179.83); wing, 76.20- 

 79.76 (78.49); tail, 72.90-78.74 (75.18); exposed culmen, 14.48-14.73 

 (14.60); depthof bill at base, 7.37; tarsus, 25.40-26.42 (26.91); middle 

 toe, 19.05-19.30 (19.13).' 



'There are two Alexandrovsks or Fort Alexanders in Alaska; one on Graham Har- 

 bor, Cook Inlet, the other on Bristol Bay, north of the Alaskan Peninsula. No 

 Melospiza is known to occur in the latter region, hence Finsch' s bird most likely came 

 from the Cook Inlet Alexandrovsk, whence the U. S. National Museum possesses rj\i 

 adult female of this form. 



' Eight specimens. 



'Three specimens. 



Eight adult males from Kukak Bay, Alaska Peninsula (opposite Kadiak) , compare 

 in measurements with the Kadiak series as follows: 



In coloration I can discover no difference whatever. 



