602 APPEXDIX. 



chestnut, the wings ami tail grayer." Hab. " Dakota — and probably other 

 regions along the eastern border of the Great Plains." 



(61.) Page 413, A. caudacutus : 



This includes two forms, of which one is to be separated as 



5496. Ammodramus caudacutus subvirgatus Dwight. 

 Acadian Sharp-tailed Finch.' 

 "Similar in size and coloring to A. caudacutus, but paler and much less 

 conspicuously streaked beneath with pale greenish gray instead of black or 

 deep brown. Bill averages smaller. Compared with neJsoni, it is much paler 

 and grayer, generally larger and with a longer bill." Hah. " Marshes of southern 

 Xew Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and probably Nova Scotia, and south- 

 ward in migration along the Atlantic coast" to South Carolina. 



(62.) Pago 413, A. maritimus : 



This includes four local forms, of which A. maritimus proper is restricted to 

 the Atlantic coast (Massachusetts to northern Florida). The three which arc 

 to be separated are as follows : 



550(7. Ammodramus maritimus peninsula; Allen. 

 Scott's Seaside Sparrow.' 

 Smaller and darker than A. maritimus, paler than A. nijresccns ; back dis- 

 tinctly striped with brownish black, chest and sides distinctly streaked with 

 dusky and more or less strongly ashy. Jlab. West coast of Florida (Cedar 

 Keys, Tarpon Springs, etc.). 



5506. Ammodramus maritimus sennetti Allen. 

 Texas Seaside Sparrow.' 

 Smaller and much paler than A. maritimus, with sides of hinder head (post- 

 auricular region, etc.) distinctly bufly, also the chest; above conspicuously light- 

 streaked ; beneath narrowly but distinctly streaked across chest antl along 

 sides. Hab. Coast of Texas. 



— . Ammodramus maritimus macgillivrayi (Aud.). 

 Louisiana Seaside Sparrow.' 

 Similar to A. m. peninsula', but still darker, with dusky streaks on back 

 broader and blacker, and margined externally (except along median lino) with 

 broad streaks of pale ash-graj'^ or grayish white; pileum and hind-neck more 

 Btronirly tinged with brown ; post-auricular space and chest strongly tinged 

 with buff (sometimes whollj' deep buff), the latter distinctly streaked with black 

 or graj'ish dusky. Hab. Coast of Louisiana ; coast of Texas (Corpus Christi, 

 etc.) during migration. 



• Ammodrnmut caudncutut tubvirgaliit DwifcHT, Auk, iv. July, 1887, 2.').1. 



' AmmoHrnmiif mnrilimiit ptnimulir Am,en, Auk, V. July, 18S8, 284 (part). 

 > Ammodramut mnritimus Dninclli Al.LKN, Auk, V. July, 1888, 286. 



* Friiifjilln mnctjitlivrttyi AuD., Orn. Biog. ii. 1834, 285. — Ammodramxu macgiltivrayi AuD., Birds Am. 

 Oct. C(l. iii. 1811, 100, pi. 173. 



