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Definition of Melospiza melodia
1. Noun. Small songbird common in North America.
Generic synonyms: New World Sparrow
Group relationships: Genus Melospiza, Melospiza
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melospiza Melodia
Literary usage of Melospiza melodia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"RANGE.— Monterey Bay, California, south to San Quintin Bay, Lower California,
and east to Fort Tejon and San Bernardino. o. Melospiza melodia ..."
2. Birds of California: An Introduction to More Than Three Hundred Common Birds by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock (1903)
"Melospiza melodia gramínea. Resident on Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Islands.
... Melospiza melodia pusil. lula. Resident in the San Francisco Bay region. ..."
3. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Melospiza melodia rufina. Range.—Pacific coast from British Columbia to Alaska.
... Melospiza melodia caurina. Range.—Coast of Alaska from Cross Sound to ..."
4. Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska by Joseph Grinnell (1900)
"Melospiza heermanni, part; Melospiza melodia heermanni, part,- Melospiza fasciata
heermanni, part; Zonotrichia guttata. STATUS—Abundant resident along the ..."
5. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Melospiza melodia montana Henshaw becomes Melospiza melodia fallax Baird. ...
Nev., and cen. s. Ore.). Auk, xxxiv, 204. 1917. t Melospiza melodia ..."
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