670 FRINGILLID.E. 



Passerculus sandwichensis savanna, Ridqw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. iii. 



p. 178 (1881); Coues, Check-list, p. 52 (1882); Stearns, op. cit. 



vi. p. 117 (1883); Turner, op. cit. viii. p. 240 (1885); Drew, 



Auk, ii. p. 1G (1885) ; Lawrence, t. c. p. 272 ; Agersb. t. c. p. 280; 



Fox, Auk, iii. p. 317 (1886). 

 Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, Ridgic. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. 



p. 178 (1881), vi. p. 350 (1883) ; Coues, Check-list, p. 52 (1882) ; id. 



Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 363 (1884) ; Murdoch, Auk, ii. p. 201 



(1885) ; Nelson, t. c. p. 240. 

 Passerculus sandwichensis anthinus, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. 



iii. p. 178 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 52 (1882). 

 Passerculus beldingi, Ridgiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vii.p. 516 (1885). 

 Passerculus sandwichensis bryanti, Ridgiv. op. cit. vii. p. 517 (1885). 

 Ainmodromus sandwichensis, Ridqw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. 



p. 354 (1885) ; A. 0. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 265 (1886). 

 Anaraodromus sandwichensis savanna, Ridqw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



viii. p. 354 (1885) ; A. 0. U. Check-list. N. Amer. B. p. 265 (1886) ; 



Cory, Auk, iii. p. 211 (1886). 

 Ammodromus sandwichensis bryanti, Ridgiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



viii. p. 354 (1885). 

 Ammodromus sandwichensis alaudinus, Ridgiv. op. cit. vi. p. 350 



(1883) ; id. op. cit. viii. p. 354 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. 



Amer. B. p. 266 (1886); Everm. Auk, iii. p. 182 (1886); Seton, 



t. c. p. 323. 

 Ammodromus beldingi, Ridqw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 354 



(1885); A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 266 (1886); Everm. 



Auk, iii. p. 182 (1886). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above streaked, 

 brown with a rufous tinge, all the feathers with broad centres of 

 blackish brown, those of the mantle and upper back with con- 

 spicuous white margins to the inner web ; scapulars conspicuously 

 rufous externally ; lesser wing-coverts uniform reddish brown ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, edged rather broadly with 

 rufous, the margins whitish ; bastard-wing dusky blackish ; primary- 

 coverts and quills dusky blackish, edged with paler brown, inclining 

 to hoary whitish on the margins of the primaries, the secondaries 

 externally rufous and margined with white like the greater coverts ; 

 upper tail-coverts like the back and rump, with broad black centres 

 to the feathers ; tail-feathers dusky brown, margined with ashy 

 brown ; crown of head like the back, blackish on the forehead and 

 sides of crown, the centre with a whitish streak down the centre, 

 caused by the light edges to the feathers ; hind neck rather more 

 ashy brown ; lores, eyelid, and a streak above the eye pale yellow, 

 the latter becoming white above the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts pale 

 rufcscent brown, with a black spot behind and a broad black line 

 aloug the lower margin ; cheeks dull white, followed by a black 

 malar line ; throat white ; fore neck and breast white, spotted with 

 triangular marks of dark brown, tinged with rufous ; abdomen uni- 

 form white : sides of body and flanks white, rather broadly streaked 

 with black, the stripes laterally rufescent ; thighs rufous-brown ; 

 \mder tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, 

 the edge of the wing slightly washed with yellow ; quills below 



