BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 377 



Island of Kadiak, Alaska, and opposite coast of Alaska Peninsula 

 (Kukak Bay, etc.). 



insignia Baihd, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 319, pi. 29, fig. 2 

 (Kadiak, Alaska; U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago 

 Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 285 (Kadiak).— Baihd, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 27, fig. 8.— Richmond, Auk, xii, 1895, 144-149 

 (monogr.) .—American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 581.1; Auk, xiv, 1897, 122. 



M.lelospiza] imiguls Hen,shaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 159, 160, part 

 (crit.); Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 298, 299 (crit.).— Ridgway, Man. 

 , N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 604. 



\_Zonotnchia\ insignia Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7392. 



\_Melospiza melodia.'\ Var. insignis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 140. 



Mehspiza vidodia . var. insignis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 169/. 



Melospiza melodia, var. insignis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 30, part (Kadiak). 



IMelospiza melodia^ h. insignis Coues, Birds N. AV., 1874, 139, part. 



Melospiza melodia insignis Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 328.— Grin- 

 nell, Condor, iii, 1901, 22 (Kadiak). 



M.lelospiza] cinerea (not Fringilla cinerea Gmelin) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iii, March 27, 1880, 3, part; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 432, part.— 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884, 372, part. 



Melospiza cinerea Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180, 217, part; 

 xvi, 1893, 664 (Kadiak); Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 232, part.— Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 250, part.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 

 154, part (Kadiak).— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin", in 1881, 1883, 72, part 

 (Kadiak); Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 193, part (Kadiak).— Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 582, part (Kadiak). — 

 Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 174, part (Kadiak; Alaska Peninsula, 

 part).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 707, part (in synonymy). 



Melospiza fasciata rufina (not Passerella rufina Bonaparte) Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. 

 Coll. Alaska, 1887, 192, part (Kadiak). 



MELOSPIZA CINEREA CINEREA (Gmelin). 

 ALEUTIAN SONG SPAEROW, y 



Similar to 3L c. insignis but still larger and graj^er; general color 

 above olive-gray (almost ash-gray in summer), the back broadly streaked 

 with brown (usually inclosing narrow blackish shaft-streaks), the pileum 

 usually with two broad lateral stripes of light vandj^ke or mummy 

 brown (these often obsolete in worn summer plumage); streaks on 

 chest, etc. , varying from light grayish brown to rusty brown. Young 

 similar to the young of 2L c. insignis, but paler above and streaks of 

 under parts grayish brown instead of sooty brown. 



Adult wa^e.— Length (skins), 170.43-2D4.72 (187.96); wing, 82.0i- 

 87.38 (86.09); tail, 78.49-86.61 (82.56); exposed culmen, 14.99-18.03 

 (16.26); depth of bill at base, 7.62-9.14 (8.38); tarsus, 26.92-29.21 

 (27.94); middle toe, 18.80-21.08 (20.07).^ 



' Sixteen specimens. 



