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Ammodramus kcontei Brewster, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 410 (nearCharlefston, South 

 Carolina, Jan. 26).— Loomis, Auk, iii, lSvS6, 486 (ChesterCo., South Carolina, 

 common in winter).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 596 (Mani- 

 toba, summer resid.; habits, song, etc. ).— Brimley, Auk, xi, 1894, 332 

 (Raleigh, North Carolina, Apr. 21).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 89. 



Ammodromus kcontei Sharpe, Cat. Birds. Brit. 3-Ius., xii, 1888, 695. 



[Coturmculuf\ kcontii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 481. < 



Coturnirulus kcontii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. B. Surv., ix, 1858, 452; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 340.— Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. aikUTCOg. Surv. Terr., iv,1878, 587 

 (Turtle INIt. to Souris R., North Dakota; habits) ; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 237.— Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 23 (Manitoba; habits; song).— Loomis, Auk, ii, 

 1885, 190 (Chester Co., South Carolina, winter resid.; habits). 



ICoturniculus'] kcorUei Co\:es, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 137. 



C.\_oturnimlus} kcontii Coues, Key N.Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 366. 



Coturnimlus kcontei Coues, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 748 (biogr^aphy, etc.) ; Check List, 

 1873, no. 164; Birds N. W., 1874, 134.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 552, pi. 25, fig. 6; iii, 1874, 513 (n. North Dakota; 

 crit.; full descriptions).— Snow, Obs. Nature, iii, 1876 (Lawrence, Kansas, 

 Oct. 4).— Nelson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 40 (Riverdale, n. e. lUinois, 

 May 13); v, 1880, 51 (do.).— Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clul), ii, 1877, 26 

 (Storey Co., centr. Iowa, Oct. 10, abundant). — Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 8 (Coosada, Alabama, Feb., Mar.).— Roberts, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 152 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20 to Aug. 15).— 

 Worthen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 32 (Warsaw, Illinois, breeding?).— 

 LooMis, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 54 (Chester Co., South Carolina, 

 Nov. 11 to Dec. 10, abundant.). — Ogilby, Scient. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, 

 iii, 1882, [33] (Navarro Co., Texas, Nov. to Apr.).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 121 (Rosewood, Gulf Hammock, Florida, Nov.; very 

 abundant).— RiDG way, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 200; Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, viii, 1883, 58 (Richland Co., s. e. Illinois, Oct. 27, 28, very abundant) .— 

 Ageesborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South Dakota, breeding). — Widmann, 

 Auk, ii, 1885, 381 (St. Louis, Missouri, Apr. 1). 



AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII HENSLOWII (Audubon). 

 HENSLOWS SPARROW, 



Tail not longer than wing, graduated, the graduation decidedl}^ less 

 than length of exposed culnien, the lateral rectrices much shorter than 

 middle pair (difference between tips of longest and shortest rectrices 

 much greater than length of bill from nostril); bill stout, its depth at 

 base nearl}' or quite equal to length from nostril; a blackish rictal and 

 (usually) a blackish submalar streak. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head and neck buff}' olive, the pileum heavily 

 streaked, except along median line, with black, the hindneck more nar- 

 rowly streaked; back and scapulars chestnut, the feathers black cen- 

 trally and narrowh' edged or margined with whitish; wings mainly 

 chestnut; blackish postocular, rictal, and submalar streaks (the last 

 sometimes indistinct); chin and throat pale buff or buff}- whitish; chest, 

 sides, and flanks deeper buft'y, streaked with blackish; abdomen whitish. 



