72. AMMODKOMtTS. 691 



dusky brown, edged with whit}- brown, the two centre ones rufous, 

 blackish down the centre ; crown of bead pale olive-brown, with a 

 black stripe along the sides of the crown, leaving a pale streak down 

 the centre ; nape and hind neck greenish olive-brown, spotted with 

 black in the centre of the feathers ; lores dull whitish, surmounted 

 by an eyebrow of pale ashy olive-brown ; feathers round eye dull 

 whitish ; ear-coverts pale ashy olive-brown, with a blackish patch be- 

 hind ; cheeks also pale ashy olive-brown, with a narrow black streak 

 on their upper and lower margins ; throat and under surface of the 

 body dull whitish ; sides of neck greenish olive-brown ; fore neck 

 and chest minutely spotted with black ; breast and abdomen whiter ; 

 sides of body and flanks fulvous brown, rather more broadly streaked 

 with black; thighs fulvescent externally, whitish on the inner 

 side ; under tail-coverts fulvescent ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white, edged with olive-yellow, brighter on the outer edge of 

 the wing ; quills below ashy, whiter along the inner edge. Total 

 length 4-4 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-25, tail P8, tarsus 0*6. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 4*5 

 inches, culmen 05, wing 2, tail 1-85, tarsus 0*6. 



Hab. Eastern United States, west to the Plains, north to Southern 

 New England and Ontario {A. 0. U. Check-list, I. c). 



a. Ad. sk. North America. Sclater Coll. 



b. J ad. sk. Eichland Co., Illinois, May 25, U.S. Nat. Museum 



1883 (R. Ridgway; Sm. no. [P.]. 

 90737). 



c. 5 ad. sk. Richland Co., May 25, 1883 (R. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ridgivay; Sm. no. 90736). 



d. $ ad. sk. Fox Prairie, Illinois, June 8, 1871 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(R. Ridgway). 



e. Jad.sk. Tollestone, Indiana, July 4, 1881 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(H. K. Coale). ' [P.]. 



6. Ammodromus manimbe. 



Manirnbe, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 525, no. 141 (1802). 



Fringilla manimbe, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 25 (1823) ; Neuicied, Beitr. 



Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 600 (1831). 

 Emberiza manimbe, DOrb. $ Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1837, p. 77. 

 Ammodromus xanthomus, Gould in Dano. Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds, 



pi. 30 (1841). 

 Ammodromus manimbe, Gould, ut supra, p. 90 (1841); Hartl. Ind. 



Azara, p. 10 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 374 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 96, no. 7421 (1870). 

 Coturniculus manimbe, Bp. Consp. i. p. 481 (1850) ; Cab. Mas. Hein. 



Th. i. p. 133 (1850) ; Burm. Th. Bras, im p. 228 (1856); id. Beis. 



La Plata-St. ii. p. 486 (1861) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 116 (1862) ; 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 230, 430 (1871) ; Scl. § Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 32 (1873) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 216. 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above ashy grey, 

 the feathers of the mantle and back broadly streaked with black, 

 the black streaks edged laterally with rufous ; rump more uniform 

 ashy, with scarcely any black centres to the feathers ; lesser wing- 

 coverts olive-yellow, brighter yellow on the edge of the wing; 



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