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Achdt male. — Length (skins), 105.41-120.65 (113.51:); wing, 19.28- 

 53.85 (51.56); tail, 15.9T-52.07 (19.02); exposed culmen, 8.38-10.16 

 (9.11); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.59 (5.33); tarsus, IT. 78-18. 80 

 (18.29); middle toe, 13.21-15.21 (11.22).^ 



AduJf.feiaidc.—LQwo^ih (skins), 110.49-127.00(117.35); wing, 19.02- 

 53.31 (51.31); tail, 16.1:8-55.88 (49.78); exposed culmen, 8.38-9.91 

 (9.14); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.33 (5.20); tarsus, 17.53-18.80 

 (18.03); middle toe, 12.70-15.24 (14.22).^ 



Prairie marshes of Mississippi Valley and central British Provinces, 

 breeding from Minnesota (northern and western Illinois '.). South 

 Dakota, etc., to Assiniboia and ^Manitoba (Carberr}', Raeburn, etc.); 

 in winter migrating south to Gulf States (Texas to Florida), and to 

 coast of South Carolina, occasionally to North Carolina. 



\^Fringilla'\ caudacuta (not Oriulus cauclacutus Gmelin) Latham, Index Orn., i, 

 1790, 459 (interior of Georgia; good and exclusively pertinent description). 



Fringilla caudacuta Xcttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 505; 2d ed., 

 i, 1840, 591. 



Eiuberiza le contell Acdubon, Birds Am., oct. ed., vii, 1843, 338, \\\. 488 (jmiiries 

 of Upper Missouri River; type lost). 



Einberiza lecontei Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 (Fort 

 LTnion) . 



E.\_7nberiza^ le contel Maximilian, Journ. fiirOrn., vi, 1858, 340 (Upper Mi.ssouri). 



A.\_mmodromus'] le conleii Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, June, 1849, 374. 



A.[m7nodromus'] Zecon<et Nelson, Bull. Essex In.-rt., viii, 187tj, 106 (Riverdale, 

 n. e. Illinois, May 13 and 21). 



Anunodromus leconteii American Ornithologists' Union, Check 'Li.st, 188'3, no. 

 548. — Allen, Auk, iii, 1886, 489 (specimen from Upper Missouri R., in 

 Maximilian coll., Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). — Beckham, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 X, 1888, 674 (San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 21).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 

 1888, 191 (breeding in Dakota, Minnesota, and Assiniboine Valley, po.'^sibly 

 in 11. Illinois; localities, dates, etc.). — Polincj, Auk, vii, 1890, 241 (Adams 

 Co., w. Illinois, abundant migrant). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 447 

 (migrant, a few wintering in s. Kansas). — Butler, Proc. Indiana Ac. Sci., 

 1891 (1892), 166 (White Water Valley, n. w. Indiana, Apr., 1887 and 1889); 

 1895, 167 (Morgan Park, Cook Co., Illinois, G specs. Apr., 1895); 1897, 945 

 (Lake Co., Indiana, Apr. 15; Brookville, Mar. 12; Lebanon, Mar. 30). — 

 Hatch, Birds Minnesota, 1892, 315 (habits, etc.).— Wayne, Auk, xi, 1894, 

 256 (near Charleston, South Carolina, Dec. to Feb., abundant); xii, 1895, 

 365 (WacissaR., n. w\ Florida). — Singley, Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas, 1894, 

 372 (Corpus Christi). — Ames, Auk, xiv, 1897,411 (Toronto, Ontario, May 5, 

 1897) .—Merrill, Auk, xv, 1898, 16 (Fort Sherman, n. w. Idaho, Sept. 28).— 

 Allison, Auk, xvi, 1899, 268 (Avery's I., Louisiana, Feb. ; Amite Co., Missis- 

 sippi, Nov. 15). — Holstein, Auk, xvi, 1899, 356 (Lexington, Kentucky, Apr. 

 15 and July 16). 



Ammodramus lecontei Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 323 (C<jrpus 

 Christi, Texas, ^^pr.). 



A-lmmGdranius} leconteii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 412. 



Ammodramus lecontii Fuertes, Auk, xv, 1898, 188 (Ithaca, New York, Oct. 11, 

 1897). 



' Ten specimen.s. 

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