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581. Melospiza fasciata (Gmel.). 



Song Sparrow. 



Fringilla fasciata Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 922. 

 Melospiza fasciata Scott, Am. Nat. X. 1876, 18. 

 [B 363, C 169, R 231, C 244.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States to the Plains, breeding from 

 Virginia and the southern portion of the Lake States northward to 

 the Fur Countries. 



581a. Melospiza fasciata fallas (Baird). 

 Desert Song Sparro^v. 



Zonotrichia fallax Baird, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. June, 1854, 119 



(nee Melospiza fallax auctorum plurimorum !). 

 Melospiza fasciata fallax Hensh. Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 

 [B 367, C T.(>()a,part, R 2T,\a, part, C 245, /ar/.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Parts of New Mexico, Arizona, southern Nevada, 

 and southwestern Utah. 



581 b. Melospiza fasciata montana Hensh. 



Mountain Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza fasciata montana Henshaw, Auk, I. July, 1884, 224. 

 [B — , C i()<)a,part, R z^ia, part, C 245,/^^/.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Northern Mexico, mountains of New Mexico, Colo- 

 rado, Utah, Nevada, and northward. 



581 r. Melospiza fasciata heermanni (Baird). 



Heerman's Song Sparrovr. 



Melospiza heermanni Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 478. 

 Mehspiza fasciata 8. heermanni Ridgw. Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI. III. 

 April, 1878, 66. 



[B 364, C 169^, R 231*, C 248.] 

 Geog. Dist. — California, east into western Nevada. 



581 d. Melospiza fasciata samuelis (Baird). 

 Samuels's Song Sparro\7. 



Ammodromus samuelis Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 455. 

 Melospiza fasciata samuelis Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Mar. 

 1880, 3. 



