684 PEINGILLID^i. 



pi. 25. fig. 8 (1874) ; Maynard, B. East. N. Amer. p. 121 (1878) ; 

 Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv.iv. p. 17 (1878) ; Bidgw. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. iii. p. 217 (1881) ; Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 53 

 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 367 (1884) ; N. T. Law- 

 rence, Auk, ii. p. 272 (1885) ; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 213 (1886) ; A. O. 

 U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 2(39 (1886). 



Fringilla macgillivrayi, Audub. B. Amer. pi. 355 ; id. Om. Biogr. ii. 

 p. 285 (1834), iv. p. 394 (1838), v. p. 499 (1839). 



Ammodroinus luacgillivrayi, Audub. Syn. p. 110 (1839); Bp. Comp. 

 List B. Eur. §■ N. Amer. p. 32 (1838) ; id. Consp. i. p. 482 (1850) ; 

 Audub. B. Amer. iii. p. 106, pi. 173 (1841); Gray, Gen. B.'u. 

 p. 374(1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 482 (1850). 



Fringilla (AmmodromiLs) lnaritima, Nutt. Man. 2nd ed. p. 592 

 (1840). 



Fringilla (Amniodronius) ruacgillivrayi, Nutt, t. c. p. 593 (1840). 



Adult male in breeding -plumage. General colour above dull 

 ashy brown with an olive tinge, the feathers of the mantle and 

 back mottled with blackish centres, which are edged with paler 

 ashy : lower back and rump more uniform, the blackish centres 

 being less distinct ; lesser wing-coverts dull olive yellowish ; median 

 and greater coverts dark brown, with blackish centres, and edged 

 with rufescent brown ; bastard-wing blackish, fringed with whity 

 brown ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged with olive, 

 the secondaries margined with rufescent brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 like the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with olive ; crown 

 of head dark ashy grey, slightly washed with olive, with a few 

 blackish streaks on the sides of the hinder crown ; lores ashy white, 

 surmounted by a line of bright yellow ; feathers round eye dark 

 ashy like the ear-coverts, which have a faint superior line of olive 

 along the crown ; cheeks ashy whitish, followed by a broad malar 

 streak of ashy grey ; throat white ; sides of neck dull ashy ; fore 

 neck and chest whitish, broadly streaked with ashy grey and slightly 

 washed with sandy buff; lower breast and abdomen dull white; 

 sides of body and Ranks ashy brown, inclining to clear brown, and 

 broadly streaked with dusky brown ; thighs brown ; under tail- 

 coverts pale brown, broadly streaked with black; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy brown, the edge of the wing bright 

 yellow ; quills below dusky brown, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill dark brown above, light blue beneath ; feet and claws greyish 

 blue" (Audubon) ; iris hazel. Total length 5 - 5 inches, culmen - 6, 

 wing 2-55, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-9. 



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

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-25, tail 1*8, tarsus - 85. 



Young birds have the markings much more distinct, and closely 

 resemble A. caudacutus, though larger. They will most readily be 

 distinguished by the absence of the fulvous superciliary stripe. (B., 

 B., 4- B.) 



Hab. Salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, from Massachusetts 

 southward, and along the Gulf coast to the llio Grande (A. O. U. 

 Check-list, I. c). 



