BIRDS—FRIN GILL1DAE—MELOSPIZA MELODIA. 
477 
Prevailing color above olivaceous gray. Stripes of breast purer black, with little 
or no rufous suffusion externally. Wing 2.50 inches. .. heermanni. 
Similar to the last but much smaller. Wing 2.10 inches.Yar. gouldii. 
Streaks above and below dark rufous, without black centres. Bill slender. 
Above decidedly rufous brown, the streaks very obsolete, without gray edges. 
Beneath thickly streaked... .. .....rufina. 
Above brownish gray. Streaks distinct; feathers with gray edging. Beneath 
rather sparsely streaked. .. .fallax. 
Helospiza, Baird. 
B. Under parts white ; breast reddish yellow, with distinct, well defined streaks. Head 
streaked..., lincolnii. 
C. Head above uniform reddish. Beneath white, without streaks, or with very obsolete ones, 
except on sides of breast. Breast tinged with plumbeous. palustris. 
Comparative measurements of species. 
Catal. No. 
Species. 
Locality. 
M 
QJ 
U1 
Length. 
Stretch of 
wings. 
1590 
6.42 
808 
Q 
5.70 
6.08 
8.33 
2637 
......do..... 
4 
5.20 
6.16 
8.84 
9528 
o 
6.40 
6227 
s 
6.22 
10274 
FortTejon, Cal... 
S 
5.00 
8053 
4.70 
10281 
Melospiza fallax...... 
Camp 106, Pueblo cr.,N.M. 
6.46 
6225 
5.50 
934 
S 
5.26 
do. 
5.66 
8.93 
375 
9? 
5.30 
do. 
5.50 
9.50 
937 
3 
5.24 
do. 
5.58 
8.35 
972 
o 
4.84 
do. 
¥ 
5.57 
8.00 
Wiug. 
Tail. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe. 
Its claw 
alone. 
Hind toe 
and claw. 
Hind claw 
alone. 
Bill above. 
Along gape. 
Specimen 
measured. 
2.62 
3.08 
0.84 
0.80 
0.20 
0.54 
0.26 
0.47 
0.45 
Skin. 
2.50 
2.43 
2.76 
0.83 
0.85 
0.23 
0.58 
0.28 
0.44 
0.50 
Skin. 
2.68 
2.75 
2.88 
0.80 
0.77 
0.20 
0.56 
0.26 
0.48 
0.54 
Skin. 
2.60 
2.93 
0.89 
0.83 
0.20 
0.60 
0.30 
0.47 
0.51 
Skin. 
2.54 
2.94 
0.92 
0.87 
0.23 
0.66 
0.30 
0.49 
0.50 
Skin. 
2.42 
2.78 
0.86 
0.82 
0.24 
9.64 
0.31 
0.44 
0.51 
Skin. 
2.10 
2.38 
0.79 
0.79 
0.18 
0.54 
0.26 
0.44 
0.50 
Skin. 
2.76 
3.18 
0.78 
0.78 
0.20 
0.62 
0.28 
0.40 
0.44 
Skin. 
2.71 
3.24 
0.86 
0.82 
0.22 
0.58 
0.26 
0.44 
0.46 
Skin. 
2.33 
2.42 
2.54 
0.82 
0.78 
0.18 
0.62 
0.28 
0.44 
0.47 
Skin. 
2.20 
2.41 
0.79 
0.74 
0.17 
0.56 
0.25 
0.41 
0.44 
Skin. 
2.60 
2.58 
2.42 
0.76 
0.82 
0.20 
0.58 
0.26 
0.44 
0.48 
Skin. 
2.34 
2.33 
2.32 
0.80 
0.74 
0.18 
0 52 
0.25 
0.43 
0.48 
Skin. 
MELOSPIZA MELODIA, Baird. 
Song Sparrow. 
Fringilla melodia, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 125 ; pi. xvi, f. 4.— Licht. Yerz. 1823, No. 249 .—Atjd. Orn. Biog 
I, 1832, 126 : V, 507 ; pi 25.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 120.—In. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 147 ; pi. 189. 
Zonotrichia melodia, Bon. List, 1838 .—Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 478. 
?? Fringilla fasciata, 1 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922.— Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 562. 
??Fringilla hyemalis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922. 
Sp. Ch. —General tint of upper parts rufous brown, streaked with dark brown and ashy gray. The crown is rufous, with a 
superciliary and median stripe of dull gray, the former lighter ; nearly white anteriorly, where it has a faint shade of yellow ; each 
feather of the crown with a narrow streak of dark brown. Interscapulars dark brown in the centre, then rufous, then grayish 
1 The fasciated sparrow of Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 375, upon which Gmelin’s name is based, answers pretty well for our 
species, but the tail is said to be crossed by numerous dusky bars, which is not the case with melodia. The winter sparrow of 
Pennant, II, 376, Fringilla hyemalis, Gmelin, is equally uncertain. 
