72. AMMODROMUS. 683 



72. AMMODROMUS*. 



Ammodromus, Swams. Zoo!. Joimi. iii. p. 348 (]827). . A. caudacutus. 

 Coturuiculus, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. $ N. Amer. 

 p. 32 (1838) A. passerinus. 



Range. North America, excepting the high north, through Cen- 

 tral America and the whole of South America, excepting the 

 extreme southern parts ; West India Islands. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Edge of wing yellow. 



a'. Breast and fore neck broadly streaked with 

 black. 

 a". A yellow loral spot; eyebrow asbv ; J maritimus, p. 683. 



cheeks whitish * . \ nigrescent, p. 685. 



"' vl*' e y ebrow > and cheeks tawny caudacutus, p. 685. 



c . Eyebrow ashy olive, yellowish above the 

 lores; cheeks pale sandy buff; upper 

 tail-coverts rufous, streaked with black henslowi, p. 600. 

 o . .Breast and fore neck uniform. 

 d". With a supraloral spot of yellow or 

 orange. 

 a'". With rufous on the back; no yellow 

 on the fore part of the cheeks. 

 a*. Eyebrow grey; sides of face sandy 

 brown ; mesial streak on crown 



sand y buff savannarum, p. 687. 



b . Eyebrow ashy grey, as also the 

 sides of the face ; centre of crown 



,, , ^^ S ve J> streaked with black manimbe, p. 691. 



b ' . \\ ith no rufous on the back ; fore part 



of cheeks yellow peruanus, p. 693. 



e . \\ ith no yellow on the lores ; head and 



back brown, streaked with black petenicus, p. 694 



b. Edge of wing white lecontii, p. 695. 



1. Ammodromus maritimus. 



Fringilla maritima, Wih. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 68, pi. 34. fig. 2 (1811) • 

 Audub. B. Amer. pi. 93 ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 470(1831). 



Ammodromus maritimus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 289 (1837) ; Bp 

 Comp. List B. Eur. $ iV. Amer. p. 32 (1838) ; Audub. Sun. p 110 

 (1839); id. B. Amer. iii. p. 103, pi. 172 (1841); Gray, Gen. B 

 ii.p. 374 (1849); Bp. Comp. i. p. 482 (1850); Cab. J. f. O. 1856, 

 p. 67 ; Baird, B. If. Amer. p. 454 (1858) ; Set. Cat. Amer. B 

 p. 116 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 96, no. 7416 (1870) ; Allen, 

 Bull. Mus. C. Z. ii. p. 279 (1871) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 138 

 (1872) ; Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 560, 



* The connection between Ammodromus and Coturuiculus appears to be com- 

 plete, and the American naturalists also unite Passerculus. The latter seems to 

 me to be a fairly distinct genus or subgenus. 



