338 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Passerherbulus henslowi henslowi (Audubon). Western Henslow's Spar- 

 row. [547a.] 



Embcnza Hensloivii Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), I, pi. 70, 1S29 (Orn. 

 Biog., I, 1831, 360). (Opposite Cincinnati, in the state of Kentucky.) 



Range. — Breeds from South Dakota and Ontario to northern Texas and 

 Ohio. Winters from southeastern Texas to northwestern Florida. 



Genus AMMOSPIZA Oberholser. 



Amniospiza Oberholser, Smithson. Misc. Coll., XLVIII, May 13, 1905, 

 68. Type, by orig. desig., Oriolus caudacutus Gmelin. 



Ammospiza caudacuta subvirgata (Dwight). Acadian Sparrow. [549. lo.] 



Amniodramus caudacutus subinrgatus Dwight, Auk, IV, No. 3, July, 

 1887, 233. (Hillsborough, Albert Co., New Brunswick.) 



Range. — Breeds in salt marshes of the Atlantic coast from southeastern 

 Quebec, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton Island south to Penobscot 

 Bay, Maine. Winters on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and north- 

 western Florida, keeping close to tidewater in migration. 



Ammospiza caudacuta caudacuta (Gmelin). Sharp-tailed Sparrow. [549.] 



Oriolus catidacutus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 394. Based on the 

 Sharp-tailed Oriole Latham, General Synops., I, Pt. ii, 448. (in Nove- 

 boraco = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds in salt marshes of the Atlantic coast from New Hampshire 

 to Virginia. Winters on salt marshes from New Jersey (casually Massa- 

 chusetts) to Florida. 



Ammospiza caudacuta nelsoni (Allen). Nelson's Sparrow. [549.1.] 



Ammodromus caudacutus var. Nelsoni Allen, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XVII, 1875, 293. (Calumet Marshes, Ainsworth [now South Chicago], 

 111.) 



Range. — Breeds in marshes in the Canadian and Upper Transition zones 

 from Great Slave Lake and west-central Alberta to southwestern Manitoba, 

 Minnesota, and northeastern South Dakota. Winters on the Atlantic and Gulf 

 coasts from North Carolina to Florida and Texas. Occurs during migration on 

 the Atlantic coast from Maine southward. Accidental in California. 



Ammospiza maritima maritima (Wilson). Northern Seaside Sparrow. [550.] 



Fringilla maritima Wilson, Amer. Orn., IV, 1811, 68 (pi. 34, tig. 2), 

 (Sea islands along our Atlantic coast = New Jersey.) 



Ran(;e. — Breeds in salt marshes of the Atlantic coast from southern Massa- 

 chusetts to Virginia. Winters from Virginia to northern Florida, rarely in 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. 



