680 FEINGILLTDJE. 



with black centres to the feathers, the centre of the crown with a 

 broad streak of ashy white, formed by the light edges to the 

 feathers ; hind neck purer ashy grey ; lores dull ashy, surmounted 

 by a narrow eyebrow of greyish white ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts 

 pale ashy, with a blackish mark behind and separated from the 

 cheeks by an indistinct blackish line ; cheeks white, as also the 

 throat, divided from the cheeks by a malar line of black ; remainder 

 of under surface of body white, the fore neck and chest streaked 

 with rufous-brown, blackish along the shafts of the feathers, those 

 in the middle of the chest so broadly edged with rufous as almost to 

 form a median patch ; breast and abdomen uniform ; sides of body 

 and flanks streaked with blackish like the chest ; thighs pale brown ; 

 under tail-coverts white, the long ones centred with black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a slight tinge of yellow 

 along the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge. Total length 5"7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3, tail 2-3, 

 tarsus OS. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5-5 inches, cul- 

 men 0-45, wing 3-05, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-8. 



Hab. Atlantic coast of North America, from Nova Scotia south, in 

 winter, to Yirginia (A. O. U. Check-list, I. c). 



a. c?ad. sk. Long Island, New York, Dec. U.S. Nat. Museum 



1883 (W. Butcher ; Sm.no. [P.]. 

 93092). 



b. Ad. sk. Long Island, Dec. 29, 1883 (Dr. Sclater Coll. 



A. K. Fisher). 



c. d. £ ; e, f, g. Duxbury, Massachusetts, Nov. H. K. Coale, Esq. 

 $ ad. sk. ' 1884 (M. Chamberlain). [P.]. 



h, i. d 2 ad - s k. Duxbury, Nov. 1883 (M. Cham- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 berlain). [?•]• 



3. Passerculus rostratus. 



Emberiza rostrata, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1852, p. 184. 

 Ammodromus rostratus, Cass. III. B. Calif, p. 226, pi. 38 (1855) ; A. 



O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 266 (1886). 

 Passerculus rostratus, Cones, Ibis, 1866, p. 268 ; id. Key N.Amer. B. 



p. 136 (1872); Baird, Brewer, fy Bidyio. Hist. B. N. Amer.i. 



p. 542, pi. 24. fig. 12 (1874) ; Ridcjiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. iii. 



p. 178 (1881) ; Beldiny, op. cit. v. p. 537 (1883), vi. p. 343 (1883) ; 



Cones, Check-list N Amer. B. p. 52 (1882) ; id. Key N Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 363 (1884) ; Brewst. Auk, ii. p. 198 (1885) ; Salvin fy 



Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 382 (1886). 

 Passerculus guttatus, Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 473 (1866); 



Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 136 (1872) ; Bidyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. iii. pp. 2, 178 (1881) ; Coues, Clieck-list N Amer. B. p. 52 



(1882); Bidyiu. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 528 (1883). 

 Zonotrichia rostrata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 95, no. 7412 (1870). 

 Zonotrichia guttata, Gray, t. c. p. 95, no. 7413 (1870). 

 Ammodromus rostratus guttatus, Ridyiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



viii. p. 355 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 267 



(1886). 



