72. AMMODEOMUS. 695 



back ; lores ashy whitish, produced into a distinct eyebrow of ashy 

 grey ; feathers round eye white ; ear- coverts ashy brown, with a 

 rufous streak along tbe upper edge ; cheeks white, posteriorly ashy, 

 like the ear-coverts, from which they are separated by a narrow line 

 of black ; throat white, with a thin malar line of blackish ; fore neck 

 and breast pale brown ; lower breast and abdomen whiter ; sides of 

 body and flanks light brown, with a few blackish streaks on the 

 latter ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts pale fulvous-brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, washed with yellow externally, 

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

 the inner edge. Total length 5 - l inches, culnien 05, wing 2-2, tail 

 2, tarsus 0-75. 

 Hab. Guatemala. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Pine ridge of Poctum, Guate- Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 mala, March 1862 (O. S.). (Type of species.) 



9. Ammodromus lecontei. 



Emberiza lecontei, Audub. B. Amer. 8vo, viii. p. 221, pi. 488 (1843). 

 Ammodromus lecontei, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 374 (1849) ; A. 0. U. 



Check-list N Amer. B. p. 269 (1886) ; Seton, Auk, iii. p. 323 



(1886) ; Brewster, t. c. p. 410 ; Allen, t. c. p. 489. 

 Coturniculus lecontei, Bp. Consp. i. p. 481 (1850) ; Baird, B. N. 



Amer. p. 452 (1858) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 96, no. 7425 (1870) ; 



Coves, Key N. Amer. B. p. 137 (1872) ; id. Amer. Nat. vii. p. 748 



(1873) ; Baird, Brewer, # Ridgic. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 552, 



pi. 25. fig. 6 (1874); Cones, B. N.-West, p. 134 (1874) ; id. Bull. 



U.S. Geol. Surv. p. 587 (1878) ; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



iii. p. 217 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 53 (1882) ; 



Seton, Auk, ii. p. 23 (1885) ; Loomis, t. c. p. 190 (1885) ; Agersb. 



t. c. p. 280 ; Widman, t. c. p. 382. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above mottled, 

 the feathers of the mantle and back black, edged with sandy buff or 

 ashy whitish, with here and there a tinge of rufous ; the lower back 

 and rump more uniform sandy buff, the feathers mesially black and 

 tinged with rufous, but not so pronounced as on the mantle ; lesser 

 wing-coverts uniform sandy brown ; median and greater coverts 

 blackish, broadly edged with rufous, the latter series sandy buff or 

 ashy on the margins ; bastard-wing blackish, edged with white ; 

 primary-coverts and quills dark brown, externally pale brown, the 

 first primary edged with white ; the inner secondaries like the back, 

 with broad black centres and with more or less rufous before the 

 ashy margins ; upper tail-coverts sandy rufous, with black centres ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, blackish in the centres and margined with 

 ashy brown, before which is a rufous shade ; crown of head blackish 

 brown, the feathers with sandy-buff margins ; along the centre of 

 the crown a broad streak of ashy white ; hind neck rather more 

 ashy ; lores white, surmounted by a broad eyebrow of orange-rufous ; 

 feathers round eye whitish ; ear-coverts dark ashy grey, with a 

 black patch near the hinder margin ; cheeks orange-rufous ; throat 



