72. AMMODKOMUS. 685 



a. Ad. st. North America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. North America (Cassin). Sclater Coll. 



c. cJad.sk. Point Judith, Rhode Island, May H. K. Coale, Esq. 



29, 1879 (C. W. Chamberlain). [P.]. 



d. c?ad.sk. Point Judith, May 29, 1879 (C. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



W. C). ' [P.]. 



e. 5 ad. sk. Madisou, Connecticut, June 17, U.S. Nat. Museum 



1869 (Rev C. M. Junes ; Sm. no. [P.]. 



58198). 

 /. <$ ad. sk. Cape May, New Jersey, May 1839 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Sm. no. 25255). 

 g. $ ad. sk. Cape May, June 1840 (Sm. no. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



25253). 

 h. Ad. sk. New Jersey. J. J. Audubon, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 i. $ ad. sk. Fort Macon, North Carolina, April U.S.j Nat. Museum 



15, 1869 (E. Coues; Sm. no. [P.]. 



55540). 



2. Ammodromus nigrescens. 



Ammodromus maritimus, var. nigrescens, Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. 



v. p. 198 (1873). 

 Ammodromus melanoleucus, Maynard, B. East. N. Amer. p. 119 



(1878). 

 Ammodromus nigrescens, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. iii. p. 217 



(1881) ; A. O. U. Check-list N Amer. B. p. 2G9 (1886). 

 Ammodromus maritimus nigrescens, Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. B. 



p. 53 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 268 (1884). 



Adult. Brownish black above, the outer edges of the dorsal 

 feathers narrowly whitish ; beneath pure white, thickly streaked 

 everywhere with black ; supraloral spot and bend of wing bright 

 yellow. Wing 2 - 40, tail 2-45, culmen 0-45, tarsus O90, middle 

 toe 0-60. 



Hab. Salt Lake, Southern Florida. 



3. Ammodromus caudacutus. 



Sharp-tailed Oriole, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 448 (1782) ; Perm. 



Arctic Zool. ii. p. 261 (1785). 

 Oriolus caudacutus, Gm, Syst. Nat. i. p. 394 (1788). 

 Fringilla caudacuta, Wils. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 70, pi. 34. fig. 3 (1811) ; 



Audub. B. Amer. pi. 149 ; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 281 (1834), v. 



p. 499 (1839). 

 Passerina caudacuta, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 25 (1817). 

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



Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 70, pi. 35. fig. 3 ; Bp. Comp. List 



B. Eur. §■ N. Amer. p. 32 (1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 374 (1849) ; 



Bp. Comp. i. p. 482 (1850) ; Baird, B. N Amer. p. 453 (1858) ; 



Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 116 (1862); Coues, Key N Amer. B. p. 138 



(1872) ; Maynard, B. East, U.S. p. 122 ; Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 557, pi. 25. fig. 7 (1874); Ridgw. Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mm. iii. p. 217 (1881) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd 



ed. p. 368 (1884); A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 268 (1886). 

 Fringilla littoralis, Nutt. Man. i. p. 504 (1832). 

 Ammodi'omus caudacutus, var. nelsoni, Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 



xvii. p. 292 (1875). 



