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PASSERCULUS PRINCEPS Maynard. 

 IPSWICH SPARROW. 



Exposed culmen not longer than hallux (without claw); wing more 

 than seven times as long- as exposed culmen (averaging- more than 

 76.20 mm.). 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above pale grayish, the pileum and back 

 streaked with pale brown and blackish (the latter inclosed as a narrow 

 mesial streak within the former); pileum with a narrow^ median stripe 

 of pale gra^nsh buff or dull buff}' whitish; broad superciliary stripe 

 similar, but paler (rareh^ 3'ellowish) anteriorly; outer surface of ter- 

 tials and greater wing-coverts pale buff'y brown; malar stripe pale buff 

 or whitish; under parts white, tinged laterally (sometimes across chest 

 also) with pale In-ownish buff, the chest and sides streaked with brown 

 (the streaks usually darker, sometimes blackish, medially); maxilla 

 dark brown or blackish, mandible paler; iris brown; legs and feet pale 

 brownish or dull straw color. 



Adult male.—l^Qngth (skins), 134.62-153.67 (113.00); wing, 72.39- 

 82.55 (76.45); tail, 52.83-64.77 (56.13): exposed culmen, 10.41-10.92 

 (10.67); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 21.59-24.13 

 (22.86); middle toe, 16.26-17.27 (16.76).' 



Adult female.— Ij^ngih (skins), 134.62-148.59 (141.99); wing, 72.39- 

 82.55 (76.96); tail, 53.34-56.90 (54.86); exposed culmen, 10.67-11.18 

 (10.92); depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.62 (7.37); tarsus, 21.84-24.13 

 (22.86); middle toe, 16.00-17.02 (16.26).' 



Breeding on Sable Island (and other islands f), off' Nova Scotia; 

 migrating southward along Atlantic coast as far as Georgia (Glynn 

 County). 



Centronijx bairdii. (not Ember iza bairdii Audubon) Allen, Am. Nat, iii, 1869, 513, 

 631 (Ipswich Beach, Massachusetts; crit. ). — Maynard, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 

 554 (Ipswich Beach); Xaturahsts' Guide, 1870, 113, colored plate. — Brews- 

 ter, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 307 (Ipswich, Massachusetts, Oct. 14, 15). 



ICentroiu/.r} bairdii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 135, part. 



Passerculus princeps Maynard, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 637 (Ipswich Beach, Massachu- 

 setts; coll. C. J. Maynard) ; Naturalists' Guide, 2d ed. , 1877, 112, colored plate; 

 Birds Eastern U.S.,pt.iv, 1878, 101, pi. 3.— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 158; 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 225; Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 696 (Massachusetts) ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iii, 1878, 3 (synonymy, etc.). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway', Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 540, pi. 25, fig. 2; iii, 1874, 513 (Long Island) .—Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H.,xvii, 1875, 441 (Massachusetts).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, i, 1876, 52 (Point Lepreaux, New Brunswick, Apr. 11).— Mer- 

 riam. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 52 (near New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 

 4) ; Trans. Conn. Acad., iv, 1877, 36 (coast Connecticut, Nov. ) ; Auk, i, 1884, 390 

 (Sable I., Nova Scotia, breeding; see Ridgway, Auk, i, 1884, 292). — Brown, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 27 (Lake Umbagog, New Hampshire, Oct. 9, 1 

 spec.).— Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 78 (Coney I., New York, 



^ Seven specimens. 



