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235. Coturniculus passerinus perpallidus Ridg. B . c 162. R i98a. 



Bleached Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



236. Coturniculus henslowi (Aud.) Bp. B 339. c ics. R 199. 



Henslow's Sparrow. 



237. Coturniculus lecontii (Aud.) Bp. B 340. c 164. R 200. 



Le Conte's Sparrow. 



238. Ammodramus maritimus (Wils.) Sw. B 342. c 165. R 202. 



Seaside Finch. 



239. Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens Ridg. B . c 165. R 203. 



Floridan Seaside Finch. 



240. Ammodramus caudacutus (Wils.) Sw. B 341. c 166. R 201. 



Sharp-tailed Finch. 



241. Ammodramus caudacutus nelsoni Allen. B . c . R 20ia. 



Nelson's Sharp-tailed Finch. 



242. Melospiza lincolni (Aud.) Bd. B 368. c 167. R 234. 



Lincoln's Song Sparrow. 



243. Melospiza palustris (Bartr.) Bd. B 369. c 168. R 233. 



Swamp Song Sparrow. 



244. Melospiza fasciata (Gin.) Scott. B 363. c 169. R 231. 



Song Sparrow. 



235. C. p. per-pal'-ll-dus. Lat. pallidus, pallid, pale, and the intensive particle per. 



236. C. hen'-slow-i. To Prof. J. S. Henslovv, of Cambridge, Eng. 



237. C. Ig-con'-ti-I. To Dr. John L. Le Conte, of Philadelphia. 



238. Am-mo'-dra-mus mar-it'-i-mus. Gr. &/j.fj.os, sand, sea-sand ; for the rest of the word, see 



under Peucedramus, No. 110. The name was originally written as above by Swainson, 

 and we see no necessity of changing it to Ammodromus, It is commonly accented on the 

 penult. Lat. maritimus, maritime ; mare, the sea. 



239. A. m. nig-res'-cens. Lat. nigrescens, present participle of nigresco, I grow black; niger, 



black. 



240. A. caud-a-cu'-tus fkowclakootns not cordakewtus]. Lat. cauda, tail, and acutus, acute, 



sharp ; cicus, a pin or point, Gr. O.KTJ or a/a's, whence the Lat. verb acuo, of which acutus 

 is the perfect participle. 



241. A. c. nel'-son-i. To E. W. Nelson, of Illinois, who discovered it near Chicago. 



Not in the orig. cd. Since described by Allen, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, p. 03. 



242. Mel-6-spi'-za lin'-col-ni. Gr. yue'Aos, a song, melody, and fftrlfr or ffir'ifr, some small bird ; 



from fftrifa, I chirp. Not to be confounded, as some writers have done, with a-m^'ias, a 

 kind of hawk. The cnrify of Aristotle is supposed to be Fringilla cadels. To Robert 

 Lincoln, sometime a companion of Audubon. In strictness, the above generic name 

 should be pronounced melospeedzah ; and the / in lincolni be heard. 



243. M. pal-us'-tris. Lat. palustris, pertaining to a swamp; from pains, a swamp. 



244. M. fas-ci-a'-ta. Lat. fasciatim, striped ; /asm, a bundle of fagots. The allusion is to the 



indistinct bands upon the tail feathers ; so obsolete arc they, in most cases, that it is 

 only recently that it has been admitted that this is the species described by Gmelin. 

 But the markings are as obvious, in some cases, as those on the tail of ChamcEa fasciata. 

 The species is given as M. mclodia in the orig. ed. of the Check List. 



