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described aud figured from Charleston, S. C; pri>bable type specinieii a young bird now 

 No. 2894 U. S. Nat. Mus., examined by me. Included under maritimiis in former eds. of the 

 Key. Fringilla macgiUivraii Aud. Oru. Biogr. ii, 1834, p. 285; iv, 1838, p. 394; v, 1839, 

 p. 499; folio pi. ccdv — in part; for the account includes the race below given as fisheri. 

 Ammodramus macgillivrayi Aud. B. Am. iii, 1841, p. lOG, 8vo, pi. clxxiii — in part; range 

 given from South Carolina to Texas, thus including other races. A. m. macgiUivraii Chapm. 

 Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 5 (not o{ Kidgw. 1896, nor of A. O. U. List, Eighth Suppl. 1897, 

 No. 550 c, which is fisher i); A. O. U. List, Ninth Suppl. Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 118, No. 550 rf. 

 A. m. penin'sulae. (Lat. peninsula, a peninsula, almost an island ; pene, almost ; insula, 

 island.) Scott's Seaside Finch. Peninsular Seaside Sparkow. Crown as in mac- 

 gillivrayi; nape greenish-olive, about as in maritimus proper; back dull black, margined with 

 greenish-olive ; breast streaked with dusky margined with bufi" or with bluish-gray ; Hanks 

 streaked with dusky, margined with grayish or olive-buff. Wing averaging 2.32; tail 2.09. 

 These comparative characters may be thus amplified : Adult ? : Differing from maritimus 

 proper in some points by which it approaches nigrescens (see beyond) ; like the latter in size 

 and proportions, including size and shape of bill. Feathers of upper parts with dull brownish 

 centres, broadly edged with olive and gray. Black streaks of under parts stronger and sharper 

 than in maritimus, less so than in nigrescens. Throat and belly white ; other under parts 

 shaded with brownish-ash, besides the streaks. Young in first plumage : Black prevailing 

 above, the feathers narrowly edged with ochraceous ; throat and midtlle of belly white; sides 

 bright ochraceous, narrowly streaked with black. Wing 2.20; tail 2.00; tarsus 0.83; bill 0.52. 

 Type Locality Tarpon Springs, Florida; breeding range not made out; general range given as 

 from South Carolina to Texas, probably by error, in A. 0. U. List. Included under maritimus 

 in lst-3d eds. of Key. Allen, Auk, July, 1888, pp. 284, 286; Coues, Key, 4th ed. 1890, 

 p. 899; A. O. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, p. 228, No. 550 a. 



A. m. fish'eri. (To Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the U. S. Biological Survey.) Fisher's Sea- 

 side Finch. Louisiana Seaside Sparrow. An alleged subspecies, sadly mixed up in 

 synonymy, geography, and diagnosis with both the foregoing races. One account is : Sides of 

 crown deep black, margined with mummy brown, median line ill-defined, bluish-gray; nape 

 mummy brown; back deep black, bordered by mummy brown and margined by bluish-gray; 

 breast and flanks streaked with black, widely margined with pale ochraceous. Wing 2.29 ; 

 tail 2.12. Another diagnosis is: Upper parts deep black, in fresh plumage the feathers bor- 

 dered by mummy brown aud margined with bluish-gray ; breast and flanks streaked with black 

 and more or less heavily washed with pale ochraceous. Type No. 163,722 U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Grande Isle, L(nusiana, June 9, 1886. Range given by its describer as coast of Gulf States ; 

 breeding from Grande Isle, Louisiana, westward, probably to N. E. Texas, S. in winter to 

 Corpus Christi, Texas, and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Range restricted by A. 0. U. to coast 

 of Louisiana; in migration, coast of Texas. Included under maritimus or peninsula in all 

 former eds. of Key. Said to be Fringilla macgiUivraii Aud., in part. Said to be A. m. 

 macgillivrayi Ridgw. Man. 2d ed. 1896, p. 602. Said to be A. m. peninsulce Allen, Auk, 

 July, 1888, p. 284, in part, and Chapm. Bull. Amer. Mus. iii, 1891, p. 324. Finally, it 

 turned up as A. m. fisheri Chapm. Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 10, pi. i, upper fig.; A. 0. U. Suppl. 

 List, Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 118, No. 550 c. 



A. m. sen'netti. (To George B. Sennett.) Sknnett's Seaside Flinch. Texan Sea- 

 side Sparrow. Closely resembling maritimus proper, from which separated geographically 

 by the foregoing races, and otherwise distinguished by the greenishness of the black-centred 

 feathers of upper parts. It thus differs from the typical form in the opposite direction from 

 that taken by peninsulfe and nigrescens. Adult $ 9 : Upper parts lighter than in maritimus 

 proper i nape streaked with black. Under parts liglit gray, white on tliront and belly, with 

 distinct narrow blackish streaks on l)rcast and flanks, tliose of breast bordered with wliitc or 



