BIRDS — PRINGILLIDAE — AMM0DR0MU8 CATTDACUTUS. 



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Under mandible yellowish ; a superciliary and maxillary stripe light chestnut, the latter 

 bordered below by black ; feathers of back sharply edged with yellowish ; breast and sides tinged 

 with brownish yellow with very distinct streaks A. caudacutus. 



Back with distinct dusky streaks, but without well defined light edges; beneath white ; sides 

 of neck and body, and across the breast, with black streaks ; maxillary stripe white ; wing 

 coverts orange rufous, and no yellow on the edge of the wing A. samuelis. 



Comparative measurements of species. 



AMMODROMUS CAUDACUTUS, Swain son. 



Sharp-tailed Finch. 



Oriolus caudacutus, Gmelim, I, 1788, 394. — Latham, Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 186. (Not FHngilla enudacuta, Lath.) 

 FHngilla caudacwla, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 70 ; pi. .\xxiv, f. 3.— AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 281 : V, 499 ; pi. 



149. 

 Fringilla (Spiza) caudacuta, Bon. Syn. 1828, 110. 

 Passerina caudacuta, Vieillot. 

 Ammodromus caudacutus, Swainson, Birds, II, 1837, 289. — AnD. Synopsis, 1839, 111. — Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 



108 ; pi. 174.— BoNAP. Conspectus, 1850, 482. 

 Fringilla litloralis, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 504. (2d ed. 1840, 590.) 

 Sharp-tailed oriole, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 261. New York. 



Sp. Ch. — Upper parts brownish olivaceous. Head brownish, streaked with black on the sides, and a broad central stripe of 

 ashy. Bacli blotched with darker. A broad superciliary and ma-xillary stripe, and a band across the upper breast buff yellow. 

 The sides of the throat with a brown stripe ; the upper part of the breast, and the sides of the body streaked with black ; rest 

 of under parts white. Edge of wing yellowish white. Length, 5 inches ; wing, 2.30. 



Hah. — Atlantic coast of the United States. 



The young is of a more yellowi.sh tinge above and below ; the streaks on the back more 

 conspicuous ; the scapular feathers without the whitish edging. 



List of specimens. 



