216 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS MACGILLIVRAII (Audubon). 

 MACGILLIVRAY'S SEASIDE SPARROW. 



Similar to ^1. 'm. uiaritrmus^ ])ut darker, with the back distincth', often 

 broadly, streaked with black, the streak.s on chest and sides broader 

 and darker, and usually the blackish mesial streak of the middle rec- 

 trices much broader. 



Adult male— hen^th (skins), 134.0:^-147.32 (139.45): wing-, 59.44- 

 64.26 (61.47); tail, 51.05-58.42 (53.69); exposed culmen, 13.97-14.99 

 (14.48); depth of bill at base, 6.86; tar.sus, 22.61-23.88 (23.37); middle 

 toe, 16.51-17.53 (16.76).^ 



^.^liZiJ/ewaZe.— Length (skins), 129.54-145.54 (137.16); wing, 55.37- 

 60-20 (58.42); tail, 46.99-55.88 (50.80): exposed culmen, 12.70-15.24 

 (13.97); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.11 (6.60); tarsus, 21.59-23.11 

 (22.61); middle toe, 15.75-17.27 (16.51).' 



Coast of South Carolina (vicinity of Charleston) to eastern Florida 

 (breeding- on Anastasia Island and at Matanzas Inlet); in winter west- 

 ward along- Gulf coast to Louisiana. 



Fringllla macgilllvra'd Audubon, ()ni. Biog., ii, 1834, 285 (Charleston, South 



Carolina; probable type in V. S. Nat. Mus.); iv, 1838, 394, part; v, 1S39, 



499, part, pi. 355. 

 Ainmodrumus macgilUvrai/i Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32, part. — 



Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 110, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 106, pi. 173. 

 Fringilla {Ammodramus) macgillhrn)/! Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Canada, 2d 



ed., i, 1840, 593, part. 

 lAmmodromus] macgillhrayi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 482, part. 

 Ammodramus maritimus macgUlivrail Chapman, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 5 (crit). — 



American Ornithologists' UnionCommittee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 118 (no. 550fZ). 

 A.\^inmodramus] m.l^aritimus} peninsulie [wot oi AWen, Auk, v, 1888, 284) Allen, 



Auk, V, 1888, 426, part (Sapelo I., Georgia, etc.). 

 Ainmodrainus riiaritunus 2}eninsidai American Ornithologists' Union, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 550, part (South Carolina). 

 (?) Ammodramus maritimus (not FringiUa marltiina Wilson?) Cabanis, Journ. 



fiir Orn., 1856, 7 (Cuba?). 

 (?) Atnmodramus maritimus Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 213 (Cuba); Birds West Ind., 



1889, 99 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 112, 147 (do.). 

 (?) [Ammodromus'] maritimusCoRY , Revised List Birds West Ind., 1886, 35 (Culia). 

 \_A7nm0dr0mus'] maritimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 138, part. 

 AmmodTomusmaritimus Ali.e^ , Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, no. 3, 1871, 279 (Fernan- 



dina, n. e. Florida) . — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 560, part.— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 121, part. 

 A.[mmodro7nus'] maritimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 367, part. — 



Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 413, part. 



AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS PENINSULyE Allen. 

 SCOTT'S SEASIDE SPARROW. 



Similar to A. )ii. macgllUvraii, but more uniform in color aboye, 

 where the blackish markings are less sharply contrasted with the gen- 



' Five specimens. '^ Ten siiecimens. 



