340 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Ammospiza nigrescens (Ridgway). Dusky Seaside Sparrow. [551.] 



Ammodromus maritimus var. nigrescens Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, 

 No. 12, Dec, 1873, 198. (Indian River, Ha. = Merritt Island, 

 Florida.) 



Range. — Marshes at the northern end of Indian River, east coast of 

 Florida. 



Ammospiza mirabilis (Howkll). Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow. [551.1.] 



Thryospiza nnrabiUs Howell, Auk, XXXVI, No. 1, Jan. 5, 1919, 86. 

 (Cape Sable, Florida.) 



Range. — Coastal marshes in the vicinity of Cape Sable, Florida. 



Genus POOECETES Baird. 



Pooecetes Baird, in Baird. Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. 

 R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xx, xxxix [Pooc-dcs, 439, 447]. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Fringilla graminea Gmelin. 



Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (Gmelin). Eastern Vesper Sparrow. [540.] 



Fringilla graminea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 922. Based on the 

 Grass Finch Latham, General Synops., II, Pt. i, 273. (in Noveboraco 

 = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds from central Ontario, southern Quebec, and Cape Breton 

 l.'-land south to eastern Nebraska, central Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, and 

 North Carolina and west to western Minnesota. Winters from the southern 

 part of its breeding range to the Gulf coast, southern Florida and middle 

 Texas. Casual in Bermuda and Yucatan. 



Pooecetes gramineus affinis (Miller). Oregon Vesper Sparrow. [5406.] 



Poocsetes gramineus affinis G. S. Miller, Auk, V, No. 4, Oct., 1888, 404. 

 (Salem, Ore[gon].) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition Zone of the Pacific Coast district from 

 extreme southern British Columbia south to southwestern Oregon. \\'inters 

 from central California to northwestern Lower California and Arizona. 



Pooecetes gramineus confinis Baird. Western Vesper Sparrow. [540a.] 



Poocsetes gramineus var. confinis Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Law- 

 rence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 448. (Western 

 U. S. = Loup Fork of the Platte River, Nebraska.) 



Range. — Breeds from southeastern British Columbia, northeastern Alberta, 

 and southern Saskatchewan to middle eastern California, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, and Texas and east to the middle of the Great Plains. Winters from 



