218 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fringilla inacgilliiraii (not of Audubon, 1834) Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 394, 



part (coast of Louisiana and Texas^) ; v, 1839, 499, part. 

 Ammodrmmis utdcgillirraii Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32, part. — 



Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 110, part: Birds Am., oct. ed.,iii, 1841, 106, part 



(mouths of the Mississippi; coast of Texas). 

 [Ammodromus'] macgiUivrayi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 482, part. 

 Animodramus maritimus macgiUivrayi Ridgway., Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 



602. — American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xiv, 1897, 121 (Check List no. 



550c). 

 Ammodramus mariiimus jjenin.vdx (part) Allen, Auk, v, July, 1888, 284 (Grand 



Isle, Louisiana, June) . — American Ornithologists' Union, Supplement to 



Check List, 1889, 13, part; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, 550o, part (Grand 



Isle, Louisiana) ; 2d ed., 1895, no. 550('. 

 Ammodramus maritimxis peninsula? Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, 1891, 



324 (near Corpus Christi, Texas, Mar. 25; crit.) . 

 Amiiwdramus maritimus fisheri Chapman, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 10, pi. 1, upper fig., 



(Grand Isle, Louisiana; U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American Ornithologists' Union 



Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 118 (no. 550c) . 



AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS SENNETTI Allen. 

 TEXAS SEASIDE SPARROW. 



Smaller, paler, and much more buffy than A. m. //laritimus, with the 

 scapulars and interscapulars distinctly darker than the general color of 

 the upper parts, relieved by broad edging's of pale grayish or buti'y, 

 the pileum more or less streaked laterally with blacki.sh, the auric- 

 ular region surrounded above, behind, and below by buff, a distinct 

 blackish post-auricular streak, and the chest distinctly buffy, broadly 

 but not sharply streaked with light gray or olive-gray. Young much 

 grayer alcove than that of A. m. macgilUvraii^ but quite as distinctly 

 and l)roadly streaked with black, the under parts much more nearly 

 white, without distinct streaks on median portion of chest. ^ 



Adult male.— Ij^nc^th (skins), 132.08-130.70 (138.18); wing, 58.42- 

 61.47 (60.20); tail, 48.77-57.66 (54.61); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.46 

 (li>.95); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.11 (6.60); tarsus, 20.83-22.86 

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



Adult female.—ljQngthi&kms), 125.73-137.16 (134.87); wing, 54.61- 

 58.42 (56.13); tail, 50.80-54.61 (52.07); exposed culmen, 12.45-13.21 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 5.84-6.60 (6.10); tarsus, 21.08-22.86 

 (22.10); middle toe, 15.49-17.27 (16.26).^' 



Coast of Texas (Galveston, Rockport, Tally's Island, Corpus Christi, 

 Nueces Bay, etc.). 



Aminodromuii maritimus (not FriugiUa maritima Wilson) Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 17 (Galveston, Texas). 



' This last character may not be constant, only two young birds having been exam- 

 ined. 

 ^ Eight specimens. 

 * Nine specimens. 



