BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—MELOSPIZA FALLAX. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected l>y— Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
5Q77 
4,540 
-, 1856 
4.599 
Feb. 5, 1856 
218 
. 6.50 
8.75 
2.62 
fi231 
247 
.! 7.00 
9.00 
fi-232 
249 
. 1 7.00 
9.00 
fi933 
255 
9.00 
6234 
Mar. —, 1856 
259 
. ! 7.00 
9.00 
6235 
262 
6228 
July 5, 1854 
85 
. 6.75 
8.75 
6229 
. 6.75 
8.75 
6230 
Sept. —, 1854 
. 6.75 
8.75 
feet the same. 
1860 
o 
Jan. 18, 1836 
S. F. Raird. 
59 
1942 
V 
10275? 
9 
861 
. 
MELOSPIZA FALLAX, Baird. 
Zonotrichia fallax, Baird, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. VII, June, 1854, 119. (Pueblo creek, New Mexico.) 
? Zonotrichiafasciata, (Gm.) Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. Ph. 2d Series, I, 1847, 49. 
Sp. Ch.—S imilar 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. 
Hab .—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 
he conveyed. The bird is rather larger, especially the tail, as shown by the accompanying 
table, while the feet and especially the hill 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. 
Jan. 22, 1854 
Lieut. Whipple- 
51 
Kennerlyand Mdllhausen. 
656 
61 b 
June 17, 1856. 
