BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 379 



Melospiza insignis (not of Baird) Dall, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 27 (Una- 



laska) ; 1874, 274 (Kyska and throughout Aleutians) . 

 M.[ehspiza'] insignis Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 159, 160, part 



(crit.). 

 Melospiza melodia, var. iiisignis Baihd, Beewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 30, part (Unalaska) . 

 [Melospiza melodia'] h. insignis Coues, Birds S. W., 1874, 139, part (synonymy). 

 Emberiza unalaschensie (not of Gmelin?) Brandt, Descr. Anim. Boss., 1836, pi. 2, 



fig. 4.— FiNSCH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., iii, 1872, 20.— Schalow, Journ. fiir 



Orn., 1891, 256 (Unalaska). 

 Melospiza sanaka McGregor, Condor, iii, Jan., 1901 (pub. Xov. 25, 1900), 8 



(Sanak I., Shumagin group; coll. E. C. McGregor). 



MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII (Audubon). 

 LINCOLN'S SPAEROW. 



Ninth primary longer than fourth (often equal to fifth); malar region 

 and broad band across chest buff, the latter streaked (usually narrowly) 

 with black. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum light mummy brown, conspicuously 

 streaked with black and divided by a more or less distinct median 

 stripe of olive-grayish; hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts light olive or buffy olive, sharpb- streaked with black, the 

 streaks broadest on back; outer surface of wings more rusty brown- 

 ish, especially on innermost greater coverts and secondaries, the greater 

 coverts and tertials conspicuously blackish centrall}'; tail light gray- 

 ish brown (hair brown or broccoli brown), the middle rectrices with a 

 median stripe of dusky; superciliary stripe and sides of neck grayish 

 or olive-grayish, the former more or less buffy anteriorly; auricular 

 region similar, but rather darker or browner, margined above by a 

 distinct postocular streak of blackish and below by a rictal streak of 

 the same; malar region, post-auricular space, broad band across chest, 

 sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts buffy, the chest, sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts streaked with black; rest of under parts white, the 

 throat usually more or less flecked or streaked with black and mar- 

 gined laterally with a black submalar line or series of streaks. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but rather more buffy, the colors 

 more suffused and markings less sharply defined. 



Adult male.— h&ngih. (skins), 123.95-i'16.30 (133.86); wing, 57.40- 

 66.55 (62.99); tail, 52.58-61.98 (57.66); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.94 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 5.84-7.11 (6.35); tarsus, 19.81-21.84 

 (20.83); middle toe, 13.72-16.51 (14.99).^ 



Adult female.— Lmgih (skins), 115.32-137.92 (128.52); wing, 54.61- 

 62.23 (59.44); tail, 51.05-59.44 (54.36); exposed culmen, 9.65-11.68 



' Seventeen specimens. 



