BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 199 



Passerculns antkinns (not Bonaparte) (?) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 112 



(California). — Coues, Iljis, 1866, 268, in text (San Pedro, s. California; 



habits). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 183, part (San Diego, California). — Ridg- 



WAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 19-1, part. — Beldixg, Proc. V. S. Nat. 



Mus. , V, 1883, 528 (San Quentin Bay, Lower California, May 2-1 1 ; resident? ) . 

 [Passerculus savanna.] Var. anthinus Coves, Key, 1872, 136, part. 

 Passerculns savanna . . . var. anthinus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 159a, Y)a,rt. — 



Hexsiiaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 240 (Santa Barbara, s. 



California, breeding; habits; measurements). 

 Passerculns savanna, var. anthinus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 539, part. 

 \^Passercnlus savanna^ b. anthinus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 128, part. 

 Passerculus savanna anthinus Coues, Bull. IT. S. Nat. ]Mus., no. 7, 1877, 9 (Todos 



Santos I., Lower California). 

 Passerculus sandvicensis anthinus Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 228. 

 P.\_asserculus'] s.landricensisl anthinns Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 363, 



part. 

 Passerculus alaudinus (not BonaY)arte) Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, iii, 1874, 512 (Santa Barbara, California, breeding). 

 Passercidns beldingi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, no. 33, Jan. 19, 1885, 



516 (San Diego, California, U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Ammodravius beldingi 'RiT>G\\\Y , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,viii, no. 23, Sept. 2, 1885, 



354. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 543. — Ever- 



MAXN, Auk, iii, 1886, 182 (Ventura Co., California, resident). — Gault, Bull. 



Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 58 (San Diego Co., California; habits; descr. 



nest and eggs, etc.). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 85. — Grin- 



nell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 36 (Los Angeles Co., California, 



resident in salt marshes). 

 A.{mmodramus'\ beldingi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 409. 

 Passerculus sanchrichensis (not Emberiza sandwichensis Gmelin) Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. :\rus., xii, 1888, 674, part. 



PASSERCULUS ROSTRATUS ROSTRATUS (Cassin). 

 LAB.GE-BILLED SPARROW. 



Culmen regularh^ curved from base, without depression in middle 

 portion, the bill more swollen than in JP. sandioichensls and allies; 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by less than length of exposed culmen 

 (the latter 10.07 mm, or more); upper parts not conspicuousl}^ streaked, 

 except sometimes on back. 



Adults {st.vcs r///7'e).— Aljove light broccoli brown, tinged with gray, 

 the feathers of pileum and back with more or less distinct mesial streaks 

 of darker; outer webs of secondaries and greater wing-coverts more 

 wood brown or cinnamon, the tertials with conspicuous central areas of 

 dusky; a broad but rather indistinct superciliaiy stripe of pale buffy 

 gra3'ish, becoming nearly white anteriorly; auricular region ))rown, 

 mixed with pale buffy grayish centrall}^; an indistinct dull whitish 

 suborbital space; broad malar stripe pale buff or buffy whitish; under 

 parts buffy white, the flanks tinged with brownish buffy, and the 

 chest, sides of throat, sides, and flanks streaked with wood brown or 

 cinnamon, these brown streaks usually inclosing a narrower median 



