BIRDS — FRINRILLIDAE— AMMODROMIT8 CAUDACUTCS. 



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Under mandible yellowish ; a superciliary and maxillary stripe light chestnut, the latter 

 bordered below by black ; feathers of back sharply edged with yellowish ; breast and sides tinged 

 with brownish yellow with very distinct streaks A. caudacutus. 



Back with distinct dusky streaks, but without well deliiied light edges; beneath white ; sides 

 of neck and body, and across the breast, with black streaks ; maxillary stripe white ; wing 

 coverts orange rufous, and no yellow on the edge of the wing A. samudis. 



Comparative measurements of species. 



AMMODROMUS CAUDACUTUS, Swains on. 



sharp-tailed Fiuch. 



Orioltu caudacutus, Gmelin, 1, 1788, 394. — Latham, Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 18C. (Not Fringilla eaudacuUi, Lath.) 

 FringUla caudacuta, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 70 ; pi. xxxiv, f. 3.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 11, 1834, 281 : V, 499 ; pi. 



149. 

 Fringilla (Spiza) caudacula, BoN. Syn. 1828, 110. 

 Passerina caudacula, Vieillot. 

 ^mmodromus caudaculus, Swainson, Birds, II, 1837, 289.— Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 111.— Ib. Birds Amer. TH, 1841, 



108 ; pi. 174.— BojjAP. Conspectus, 1850, 482. 

 Fringilla IMoralis, Nhttall, Man. I, 1832, 504. (,2d ed. 1840, 590.) 

 Sharp-tailed oriole, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 261. New York. 



Sp. Cb. — Upper parts brownish olivaceous. Head brownish, streaked with black on the sides, and a broad central stripe of 

 ashy. Bacb blotched with darker. A broad superciliary and maxillary stripe, and a band across the upper breast buff yellow. 

 The sides of the throat with a brown stripe ; the upper part of the breast, and the sides of the body streaked with black ; rest 

 of under parts white. Edge of wing yellowish white. Length, 5 inches ; wing, 2.30. 



Hab. — Atlantic coast of the United States. 



The young is of a more yellowish tinge above and below ; the streaks on the back more 

 conspicuous ; the scapular feathers without the whitish edging. 



List of specimens. 



Catal. 

 No. 



1954 

 496 

 609 



Sex and 

 age. 



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Locality. 



When collected. 



Whence obtained. 



Collected by — 



Rayner S. Long Island .. . Aug. 4, 1831 S. F. Baird G.N.Lawrence. 



New York do. i John G. Bell... 



Cape Slay, N.J June —, 1840 do i W. M. Baird... 



