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Fringilla rafa Wilson, Am. (_)rn., ii, 1811, 53, pi. 22, fig. 4 (Pennsylvania, etc.; 



ex Bartram). — Lichtensteix, Verz. Doubl., 1823, no. 428. 

 " Emberiza pruleriHis Vieill.?" (Cabanis. ) 

 Paaserellaohscura Yeerill, Proc. Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., ix, Dec, 1862, 143 ( Anticoeti 



I.; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge;=young). 



PASSERELLA ILIACA UNALASCHENSIS (Gmelin) . 

 SHTTMAGIN FOX SPARROW. 



Adults {'^."xes (tlilce). — Pileum and hindneck browni.sh graj' or grayish 

 brown (nearly hair brown), passing into clear gray (mouse gray or 

 smoke gray) on superciliary region and sides of neck; auricular region 

 brownish gray, with narroAV and indistinct shaft-streaks of whitish; 

 back, scapulars, and rump plain hair brown; greater wing-coverts, 

 tertials, and upper tail-coverts dull cinnamon-brown, the rest of wings 

 intermediate between the last-named color and color of back, except 

 edges of outermost primaries, which are pale hair brown; under parts 

 white, the foreneck, sides of throat (submalar region), chest, and sides 

 of breast marked with triangular spots of deep grayish brown or drab, 

 the flanks broadlj' streaked or striped with the same (both sides and 

 flanks mostly grayish brown laterally); malar region M'hite, flecked 

 with grayish brown; under tail-coverts grayish brown centrally, 

 broadlj^ margined with white or buflfy white; middle of throat and 

 breast usuallj^ with a few small spots of brown; maxilla duskj^ on 

 culmen, paler on tomia; mandible pale colored (j-ellowish in winter, 

 pinkish or liliaceous in summer); iris brown; legs and feet brown. 



Adult male.—Length (skins), 165.10-170.18(167.64); wing, 83.31- 

 86.11 (84.33); tail, 73.15-75.69 (74.68); exposed culmen, 12.45-12.70 

 (12.58); depth of bill at base, 9:40-9.91 (9.73); tarsus, 25.40-25.91 

 (25.65); middle toe, 16.76-17.27 (17.02); hind claw, 10.16-12.45 (11.43).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 157.48-169.67 (163.58); wing, 

 79.76-81.03 (80.26); tail, 68.83-71.12 (69.86); exposed culmen, 12.70- 

 13. 21 (12. 95); depth of bill at base, 9.65-9.91 (9.78); tarsus, 24.89- 

 25.65 (25.15); middle toe, 16.51-17.53 (17.02); hind claw, 11.68-12.45 

 (12.07).' 



Shumagin Islands and Alaska Peninsula (Kukak Bay, etc.), Alaska; 

 Unalaska Island ? " 



1 Three specimens. * Two specimens. 



^ Although no Passer ella has hitherto been found on Unalaska (unless the Aoona- 

 lashka Bunting of Latham really came from there), it is not at all unlikely that the 

 present form may occur there, at least accidentally. Certainly if any form of the 

 genus does occur on that island it would be the present one rather than the Kadiak 

 form, most of the land birds of the Shumagins and Unalaska being the same, e. g., 

 Leucostide griseonucha, Passerina nivalis townsendi, Melospiza melodia cinerea, etc. 

 This form iiihabita, on the Shumagins and the peninsula, alder thickets. No alders 

 now grow on that portion of Unalaska Island within sight from the town of Una- 

 laska or its vicinity, but they may have done so formerly, or may now occur in 

 other parts of the island. At any rate, it seems better to retain the name unalasch- 

 ensis for the present form rather than to give it a new one, since the Emberiza una- 

 laschensis of Gmelin seems almost certain to have been the present form. 



