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Common Characters. Above olivaceous or ashy, the crown washed witli 

 brown hiterally, the dorsal feathers darker centrally ; beneath wliite, tinged - 

 across the jujjuliim with ochraceous or ashy ; jugulum streaked; a dusky " bridle " 

 on each side of throat ; above it a maxillary stripe of ochraceous or white. 



1. A. caudacutus. Ad. Aliove olive, the dorsal feathers darker and edged 

 with whitish-ochraceous; superciliary and maxillary stripes deep ochraceous; 

 jugulum and sides tinged witli the same, and sharply streaked with black. 

 Jav. Wholly ochraceous, darker above; crown and back streaked with 

 black, the former divided medially by a pale-brown stripe ; breast arui sides 

 streaked with black, llab. Atlantic coast of United States. 



2. A. maritimus. Ad. Above ashy, the dorsal feathers obsoletely darker 

 centrally ; superciliary stripe yellowish-ashy, bright yellow over the lores ; 

 maxillary stripe white ; jugulum and sides tinged with ashy, the foi-mer 

 obsoletely streaked with dark ashy. Juv. Above olivaceous, the crown and 

 back streaked with black, the former not divided by a lighter median line; 

 breast and sides washed with ochraceous and distinctly streaked with black. 

 Hab. Atlantic coast of United States. 



Aminodromus caudacutus, Swainson. 



SHARP-TAILED BUNTING. 



Oriolus caudacuhis, Omelin, I, 1788, 394. — Latham, Ind. Oin. I, 1790, 186 (not 

 Fringilla cattdiccuta. Lath.). Fringilla caudficuta, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 70, 

 pi. xxxiv, f. 3. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 281 ; V, 499, pi. cxlix. Fringilla {S/,i:n) 

 caudacuta, BoN. Syu. 1828, 110. Passerina cmulacuta, Vieillot. Ammndramus 

 caudacutus, Swainson, Bird.s, II, 1837, 289. — AuD. Synopsis, 1839, 111. — Ib. Birds 

 Am. Ill, 1841, 108, pi. clxxiv. — BoNAP. Conspectus, 1850, 482. — BAiiin, Birds N. 

 Am. 1858, 453. — Samuels, 307. Fringilla litturalis, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 504 

 (2d ed. 1840, 590). Sharp-tailed Oriole, Pennant, Arctir Zool. II, 261, New York. 



Sp. Char. Upper parts brownish-olivaceous. Head brownish, streaked with black on 

 the sides, and a broad central stripe of ashy. Back blotched with darker ; edges of in- 

 terscapular feathers and inner secondaries whitish, just exterior to a blackish suffusion. 

 A broad superciliary and maxillary stripe, meeting behind the ashy ear-coverts, and a 

 band across the upper breast, bufl-yellow. The sides of the throat with a brown stripe; 

 the upper part of the breast and the sides of the body streaked with black; rest of 

 under parts whitish. Edge of wing yel- 

 lowish-white. Bill yellowish below; dusky 

 above. The female appears to have more 

 buff on the breast than the male. Length, 

 5 inches; wing, 2.30. 



Hab. Atlantic coast of the United 

 States. 



The young is of a more yellowish 

 tinge above and helow ; tlie streaks 

 on the Ijack more conspicuous ; the 

 scapular feathers without the whitish 



P(l<>ill'> Amijim/romtts raiiflntutus. 



In autumnal and winter specimens the bufl' tints are much deeper than in 



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