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the dusky breast indistinctly streaked with whitish are good 

 distinguishing marks of this species, but a dusky and white 

 stripe at each side of 

 the white throat and 

 the absence of any 

 tint of reddish brown 

 are still more charac- 

 teristic. It is a 

 ground bird, found 

 nearly always among 

 the reeds and grasses 

 within both sight and 

 sound of the sea. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 2| 

 (2i-2i) ; tail, 2\; tarsus, 

 I ; culinen, '^. Atlantic 

 coast ; breeding from Georgia to ]\Iassacliusetts, and \Yintering from 

 Virginia soutliward. Scott's Seaside Sparrow (5.50». A. m. peuinsnlce) 

 is a soutli Atlantic and (iulf coast variety of a very much darker color. 



26. Dusky Seaside Sparrow (551. Ammddramns nigrescens). — 

 A Florida species more nearly like Scott's seaside sparrow than 

 any other form, but differing in having the feathers of the upper 



■ , parts black,with gray- 

 ; ish edges, and the 

 under parts sharply 

 streaked with about 

 equal amounts of 

 black and white. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 2| ; 

 tail, 2|; tarsus, |; cul- 

 men, |. Eastern Florida. 



27. Lark Sparrow 



Lark Sparrow (559. CllOndestes 



grdmmacus). — A common, western, ground-living, lark-like, 

 streaky sparrow, with black and white tail, ashy-brown back, 

 and a striped Avhite and chestnut-colored head. The central 



