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Ammodramus palustris AuDVBO^, Synopsis, 1839, 111; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 

 110, pi. 175.— Willis, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 

 (Bermudas). 



Ammodromus palustris Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. < »rn., 1850, 86 (Bermudas, 1 

 spec. Dec. 3, 1849). 



Melospiza p(di(stris Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 48? Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 369.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 114 (Pennsylvania).— 

 Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 79 (Gt. Slave Lake). — Turnbull, Birds e. Penn. and 

 N. J., 1869, 23 (breeding).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 279 (e. 

 Florida, winter); iii, 1872, 177 (e. Kansas, May) — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1871, 22 (Fort Macon, North Carolina, breeding?); Check List, 1873, 

 no. 168; 2d ed., 1882, no. 243; Birds N. W., 1874, 137; Bull. U. S. Geol. and 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 596 (Souris R., North Dakota, Sept., Oct. ).— 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7 (e. Kansas). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 34, pi. 28, figs. 1, 2; iii, 1874,515 (Washington, 

 s. Utah, 1 spec. Oct. 23). — Yarrow and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1871-73 (1874), 14 (Washington, s. Utah, 1 spec, Oct. 23); Zool. Exp. 

 W. 100th Merid., 1875, 285 (do.).— Merriam, Trans. Conn. Acad., iv, 1877, 38 

 (Connecticut, common, breeding). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 

 1878, 120 (descr. young). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 233. — 

 Bickxell, Auk, ii, 1885, 149 (song). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. 

 Dakota, breeding). — Chadbourne, Auk, ii, 1885, 216 (Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts, Jan. 11). — Bulley, Auk, iii, 1886, 277 (descr. immature plumage). 



[Mdosjnza'] palustris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 139. 



M.^elospiza'] palustris Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 109, 152 (n. e. Illinois, 

 Mar. to Oct.)— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 370. 



Helospiza palustris Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1864, 73. — Maynard, Birds E. 

 N. Am., 1881, 117. 



Passerculus caboti Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 pi. 46, fig. 9 (Nahant, Massachusetts; U. S. Nat. Mus.; no description! = 

 immature plumage with yellow tinge to head). 



"Spizella pallida" Atkinson, Prelim. Cat. Birds N. C. (Journ. Elisha Mitchell 

 Soc. for 1887) (North Carolina; see Pearson, Auk, xv, 1898, 275). 



Genus PASSERELLA Swainson. 



Passerella Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 288. (Type, Fringilla iliaca 

 Merrem.) 



Medium-sized terrestrial Fringillidas with strong, conical bill, rather 

 stont feet with strong claws (outer toe reaching to middle of subter- 

 minal phalanx of middle toe), rather long and pointed wing, and under 

 parts white conspicuously marked with triangular spots of ])rown, 

 duskj^ or chestnut. 



Bill moderate or rather large, conical, with superior and lateral out- 

 lines nearly straight, deeper than broad at base (basal depth about 

 equal to length of maxilla from nostril), and tip acute; culmen slightly 

 convex terminally and basally, straight or faintly concave in middle; 

 gonys straight or very faintly convex, its angle prominent; maxillary 

 tomium fainth' concave anteriorly, abruptly deflected at base, with 

 more or less of a notch between; mandibular tomium straight to the 

 subbasal angle, the latter unusually far back. Nostrils triangular (the 



