BIRDS — FRINGILLIDAE — MELOSPIZA FALL AX. 
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List of specimens. 
iex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings 
U'inu 
Remarks. 
Straits of Fuca, W. T . . 
Washington Territory.. 
Mar. — , 1855 
, 1856 
Feb. 5, 1856 
218 
247 
249 
255 
259 
262 
6.50 
7.00 
7.00 
7.00 
8.75 
9.00 
9.00 
9.00 
9.00 
2.62 
Mar. — , 1856 
Shoalwater bay, W. T. . 
July 5, 1854 
Dr. J. G. Cooper... 
6.75 
6.75 
6.75 
8.75 
8.75 
Iris brown 
O 
9 
Sept. — , 1854 
Jan. 18, 18H6 
do 
Iris brown, hill and 
feet the same. 
59 
9 
861 

MELOSPIZA FALLAX, Baird. 
Zonotrichiafallax, Baird, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. VII, June, 1854, 119. (Pueblo creek, New Mexico.) 
? Zonotrichia fasciata, (Gm.) Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. Ph. 2d Series, I, 1847, 49. 
Sp. Ch. — Similar to Z. melodia, but with wings and tail longer, and bill smaller. Dark centres to the brownish streaks of the 
feathers of upper and under surfaces obsolete or wanting. Superciliary light stripe ash color anteriorly. Length, 6.65 ; wing, 
2.75; tail, 3 36. 
Hah. — Rocky mountain region from Fort Thorn to the Colorado. Fort Tejon? 
Although this species is very similar to the M. melodia, yet, when specimens are compared 
with an extensive series of the last mentioned species, an impression of difference will at once 
be conveyed. The bird is rather larger, especially the tail, as shown by the accompanying 
table, while the feet and especially the bill are smaller. The line above the eye is grayish ash 
throughout, without the whitish immediately at the base of the bill. The dark brown centres 
in the brownish rufous streaks of the head, back, and under parts, are almost entirely wanting 
or very obsolete ; the color of the rufous streaks, too, is paler. 
I do not, however, feel sure that this species will stand as perfectly satisfactory, as there is a 
specimen (6226) from Boca Grande, Mexico, before me which has all the dark markings of eastern 
specimens, with a decidedly inferior bill. At any rate, I consider it as less strongly established 
than any of the others before me. It has certain relationships of coloration to the M. guttata, 
but is much grayer. 
As far as I can judge the middle toe and claw are proportionally longer than in M. melodia. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. No. 
Collected by — 
6225 
10271? 
Pueblo creek, Camp 106, N.M. 
Fort Thorn, N.M ,.. 
Jan. 22, 1854 
Lieut. Whipple 
51 
Kennerlyand Mollhausen. 
656 
June 17, 185G, 
Gl b 
