190 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dec. 20).— MiNOT, Birds New Engl., 1877, 195.— Lawrenxe(N. T.), Bull. Nntt. 

 Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 102 (Rockaway, Long I., New York, Jan, 1). — Jeffries, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 103 (crit.).— Woolsev, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 121 (New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 22).— Scott (W. E. D.) , Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, 1881, 116 (Squani Beach, New Jersey, Nov. 16).— Ridgway, Norn. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 192; Auk, i, 188-1, 292 (supposed eggs from Sable I., 

 Nova Scotia; see Merriam, Auk, i, 1884, 390).— Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vii, 1882, 190 (coast Maine, Mar. 20-28 and Oct. 13 to Nov. 6).— Chamberlain, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 8 (Point Lepreaux, New Brunswick). — 

 Dl'tcher, Auk, i, 1884, 31 (Jones' Beach, Long I., New York, Jan. 1 and Feb. 

 14-23); ii, 1885, 36 (Fire I. Inlet, Long I., New York, Dec. 17-29; Shinne- 

 cock Bay, Long I., Feb. 4-27; measurements). — Dwight, Auk, ii, 1885, 105 

 (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Nov. 22).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 679 (Long I., New York; Duxbury, Massachusetts). 



P.[asserculus'] princeps Coites, Key N. Am. Birds, Oct., 1872, 352, in text; 2d ed., 

 1884,361. 



Aiiiinodnwvcs princeps liir>GV.-AY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885,354. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 541. — Jones, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 135 (near Halifax, Nova Scotia, end of Mar.).— Ditcher, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 441 (Long I., New York, records). — Rives, Cat. Birds Virginias, 1890, 

 73 (Cobb's I., Virginia, common in winter). — Worthington, Auk, vii, 1890, 

 211 (Glynn Co., Georgia, Jan. 8-27) .—Stone, Auk, ix, 1892, 204 (Cape May, 

 New Jersey, Jan. 26-29).— RHOADS,Abstr. Proc. Del. Val. Orn. Club, 1892, 8, 

 (Cape Charles, Virginia, Mar. 29).— Brewster, Auk, x, 1893, 302 (Glynn Co., 

 Georgia; Cobb's I., Virginia). — Dwight, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1895, 

 1-56, colored pl^te (monogr.) . 



A.[mmodramus) princeps Ridgwav, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 407. 



PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS SANDWICHENSIS (Gmelin). 

 SANDWICH SPARROW. 



Wing not le.ss than 68.58, averag-ing- about 76.20; exposed culmen 

 not les.s than 11.18, averaging 11.01. 



Adults (.sv./v.y (illh). — Above gravi.sh ])rown. conspicuously streaked 

 with bhack, the broad l)hick streaks on back and scapuhirs edged with 

 narrower dull whitish or light buffy graj^ish streaks; pileum with a 

 median narrow stripe of pale grayish, or buffy grayish, streaks; a broad 

 superciliary stripe of yellowish, more decidedly yellow anteriorlj^; 

 wings light brownish with dusky centers to feathers; tail dusky gray- 

 ish brown, the rectrices edged with pale grayish, but without any 

 white on inner Avebs; auricular and subocular regions light lirownish 

 gray or dull grayish ])uffy. margined above by a blackish postocular 

 streak and ])elow l)y a more conspicuous rictal streak; a broad white 

 or pale ])utfy malar stripe; under parts white (sometimes, especially in 

 fall and winter plumage, tinged with buffy on chest, sides, etc.), with 

 sides of throat, chest, sides, and flanks conspicuously streaked with 

 blackish, the streaks on chest of more or less decided wedge-shape, 

 those on sides of throat coalesced into a more or less conspicuous sub- 

 malar stripe; longer under tail-coverts with concealed wedge-shaped 

 mesial streaks of grayish. 



