220 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



A.lmmodramus'] n ig rescen f: Riogway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 413. 

 AvimodrormiK mclanoleucus Maynard, Am. Sportsman, v, Jan. 16, 1875, 248 (Salt 

 Lake, Florida; coll. C. J. Maynard); Birds Florida, 1878, 119, pi. 10. 



AMMODRAMUS CAUDACUTUS CAUDACUTUS (Gmelin.) 

 SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. 



Adults {sexes aWke). — Broad, sharply defined, and conspicuous super- 

 ciliary- stripe and liroad malar stripe deep buti', the latter curving- 

 upward ])ehind the auriculars, but separated from the superciliary 

 stripe by a narrow l)lack or dark brown postocular stripe; auricular 

 reo-ion gra5Hsh; pileum clear bistre l)rown, streaked with ])lack, 

 divided by a broad but not sharplv defined median stripe of grayish; 

 prevailing color of upper parts olivaceous, grayer on sides of hind- 

 neck and rump, the scapulars and interscapulars decidedly darker 

 olive-brown, sharply edged with pale grayish or Iniffy whitish, pro- 

 ducing distinct streaks which are margined internally l)y a narrower 

 blackish streak; edge of wing pale yellow; under parts mostly white, 

 but the chest, sides, and flanks more or less tinged with ])uft' (some- 

 times, especially the chest, distinctly bufl), sharply and usually con- 

 spicuously streaked Avith dusky. 



Young. — Pileum blackish (sometimes streaked with light brownish), 

 divided by a narrow median stripe, or series of streaks, of dull Inifly; 

 general color of upper parts light buffy brownish, the scapulars and 

 interscapulars Ijroadly edged with bufi'y, producing conspicuous streaks; 

 under parts Inifly, deepest on chest and sides, where more or less 

 streaked, narrowly, with dusky, the alxlomen sometimes nearly white. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 127.00; wing-, 55.37-59.18 (57.66); 

 tail, 44.45-50.55 (48.26); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.70 (12.44); depth 

 of bill at base, 5.33-5.84 (5.59); tarsus, 20.07-21.08 (20.57); middle toe, 

 15.49-16.51 (16.00).' 



Adult female.— l^Qngih (skins), 116.84-129.54 (124.21); wing, 53.34- 

 58.17 (55.88); tail, 42.67-51.31 (46.99); exposed culmen, 11.94-12.70 

 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 5.33-5.84 (5.59); tarsus, 20.07-21.34 

 (20.57); middle toe, 15.75-17.27 (16.26).' 



Atlantic coast of United States, breeding from ^Massachusetts south- 

 ward. 



{Oriolvs'] caudacutus Ct.melix, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788,394 (Xew York; based on 



Sharp-tailed Oriole Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, i, pt. 2, 448).— Latham, 



Index Orn.,i, 1790, 186. 

 Fringllla cauda-nta Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 70, pi. 34, fig. 8.— Boxaparte, 



Ann. Lye. X. Y., ii, 1828, 110.— Arnriiox, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 281; v, 1839, 



499, pi. 149. 

 Passerina candacuta Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 25. 

 A.[inmodraimiH] candacuta Swxisso's, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 289. 



' Five specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



