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AmmodnwiKs (■(tudacntux Browx, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 98 (Scarboro 

 Marsh, etc., 3Iaine, Oct., Nov.). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 201, part.— PcRDiE, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 122 (Kenebeca.sisi R., 

 near Hamilton, New Brunswick, breeding). — Chamberlain, Auk, iv, 1887, 

 261 (above falls of St. Croix R., New Brunswick, autumn). — Knic^ht, Bull. 

 3, Univ. ]\Iaine, 1897, 97 (s. coast Maine, summer resid.). 



Ammodramus caiidacutus nelsoni (not Amniodromus caudacutusxaT. nelsoni Allen) 

 Fisher, Auk, ii, 1885, 307, part (CrotonR., s. e. New York, Sept. 25 to Oct. 

 10). — Henshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 486 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Maj^ 31 and 

 Oct. 7; Sing Sing, N. Y.). 



A-lmmodramns'l ccaidaculufi nelsDtii Ridgway, ^lan. N. Am. Birds, 1SS7, 413, 

 part. 



Ammodramus aiudanitus sabrirgatus Dwight, Auk, iv, July, 1887, 233 (Hills- 

 borough, Albert Co., New Brunswick; coll. J. Dwight, jr. ); Auk, x, 1893, 11 

 (Prince Edward I. ) ; xiii, 1896, 273, 276, pi. 4, right-hand tig. (crit.) . — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 12; Check List, abridged 

 ed. 1889, no. 5496; 2d ed., 1895, no. 549?;.— Brewster, Auk, vii, 1890, 212 

 (Frogmore, near Charleston, South Carolina, Mar. 19 to Apr. 20, Oct. 25 to 

 30). — Sage, Auk, viii, 1891, 115 (Connecticut R., near Portland, Connecticut, 

 Oct. 4-13).— Stone, Auk, x, 1893, 85 (Atlantic City, New Jersey, Oct. 2).— 

 Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed. 1896, 602.— Bartsch, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 93 (Yates Co., New York, Oct. 7).— Knight, Bull. 3, Univ. Maine, 1897, 98 

 (breeding s. w. to Sagadahoc Co., Maine). 



A.l)nmodramus] caudacutus subinrgatus Stone, Auk, x, 1893, 85 (Atlantic City, 

 New Jersey, Oct.). 



Ammodramus nelsoni suhvirgalus Norton, Proc. Portland Soc. N. H., ii. Mar. 15, 

 1897, 102 (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 118. 



AMMODRAMUS LECONTEII (Audubon). 

 LE CONTE'S SPARROW, 



Bill very small (exposed culmen 8.38-10.16, averag'ing' 9.11:); broad 

 superciliary and malar stripes biitf, and pileum with a conspicuous 

 median light-colored stripe; edge of wing white. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Broad lateral stripes of pileum blackish, nar- 

 rowly" streaked or squamated with paler, the narrower median stripe 

 butf anteriorly, pale grayish or didl whitish posteriorly; hindneck ^, 

 chestnut, the feathers margined with pale grayish ; scapulars and inter- ■ 

 scapvilars blackish, mixed with chestnut, and ])roadly edged with pale 

 buff, pale grayish, or whitish; under parts buff' anteriorly and laterally 

 (deepest on chest, palest on throat), the abdominal region white; sides 

 and ffanks. i-arely also the chest, streaked with blackish; no dusky 

 rictal streak, and usuall}' no submalar streak. 



Ybiuig. — Much more buff'y above than adults, the back with l)road 

 streaks of black and narrower (lateral) streaks of light buff'; hindneck 

 deeper buff' (sometimes tinged with chestnut), streaked with l)lackish; 

 superciliary stripe and malar region luuch paler buff' than in adidts, 

 the former narrowly streaked with l>lack; median crown-stripe entirely 

 buff. 



