Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked 



5 50. Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus). 



L. 6: W. 2.5. Tail-feathers pointed, the outer ones 

 shortest; spot before eye and bend of wing yellow. 

 Ads. Above olive-green and gray (no black); below 

 white, breast and sides grayish and, in first plumage, 

 streaked with buff. Notes. Similar in character to 

 those of No. 549. 



Range. — Atlantic coast: breeds in salt marshes from North Carolina 

 to southern Massachusetts; winters from Virginia to Georgia. 



550a. Scott Seaside Sparrow (A. m. peninsula). 



Similar to No. 550, but smaller, W. 2.3; above black 

 margined by olive-brown and olive-green; below whit- 

 ish, breast and sides heavily streaked with blackish. 



Range. — Atlantic coast from northeastern Florida to South Caro- 

 lina: Gulf Coast of Florida. 



550b. Texas Seaside Sparrow {A. m. sennetti). 



Similar to No. 550, but greener above; the feathers of 

 head and back usually, those of nape always, with 

 black centres. 



Range. — Coast of Texas. 



550c. Fisher Seaside Sparrow (A. m. fisbert). 



Similar to No. 550a, but darker above, the breast and 

 sides heavily washed with rusty buff and streaked 

 with black. 



Range. — Coast of Louisiana, south in winter, at least as far as 

 Corpus Christi, Texas: casual on Gulf coast of Florida. 



550d. Macgillivray Seaside Sparrow (A. m. mac 



gilhvraii). Similar to No. 550c, but above grayer, 

 less black, breast and flanks but faintly washed 

 with buff and streaked with dusky grayish. Grayer 

 above than No. 550a, and less heavily streaked below. 



Range. — Local on coast of South Carolina. 



55 1. Dusky Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus nigres- 

 cent). L. 5.9. Above black lightly margined with 

 gray; below white heavily streaked with black; spot 

 before eye and bend of wing yellow. Notes. Similar 

 in character to those of No. 550. 



Range. — Marshes at head of Indian River, Florida, from Banana 

 River to Haulover Canal. 



583. Lincoln Sparrow {Melospi^alincolnii). L. 5.7. 

 Ads. A broad buff band across the breast; center of 

 crown with a gray stripe, its sides striped chestnut and 

 black; back grayish brown streaked with black and 

 chestnut, below streaked with black except on middle 

 of white belly. Notes. Call, a sharp chirp; song, 

 suggests bubbling, guttural notes of House Wren com- 

 bined with rippling music of the Purple Finch. 

 (Dwight.) (See, also, Brewster, Bird-Lore II, P. ill.) 



Range.— North America; breeds from northern New York, northern 

 Illinois and higher parts of Rockies and Sierra north to Alaska; 

 winters from southern Illinois and southi rn California into Mexico; 

 rare east of Alleghanies. 



583a. Forbush Sparrow (M. I. striata). Similar 

 to No. 583, but browner above, crown-stripe and line 

 over eye more brown than gray. 



Range.— Pacific coast from British Columbia to California; breed- 

 ing range unknown. 



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