FRINGILLID.E — THE FINCHES. 



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Common Characters. Above olivaceous or ashy, the crown washed with 

 brown laterally, the dorsal feathers darker centrally ; beneath white, tinged 

 across the jugulum with ochraceous or ashy ; jugulum streaked; a dusky " bridle " 

 on each side of thi'oat ; above it a maxillary stripe of ochraceous or white. 



1. A. caudacutus. Ad. Above olive, the dorsal feathers darker and edged 

 with whitish-ochraceous ; superciliary and maxillary stripes deep ochraceous; 

 jugulum and sides tinged with the same, and sharply streaked with black. 

 Jtiv. Wholly ochraceous, darker above; crown and back streaked with 

 black, the former divided medially by a pale-brown stripe ; breast and sides 

 streaked with black. Ilab. Atlantic coast of United States. 



2. A. maritimus. Ad. Above ashy, the dorsal feathers obsoletely darker 

 centrally ; superciliary stripe yellowish-ashy, bright yellow over the lores ; 

 maxillarv stripe white; jugulum and sides tinged with ashy, the former 

 obsoletely streaked with dark ashy. Juv. Above olivaceous, the crown and 

 back streaked with black, the former not divided by a lighter median line ; 

 breast and sides washed with ochraceous and distinctly streaked with black. 

 Hab. Atlantic coast of United States. 



Ammodromus caudacutus, Swainson. 



SHARP-TAILED BUNTING. 



Oriolus ■ caudacutus, Gmelix, I, 1788, 394. — Latham, Iiul. Oni. I, 1790, 186 (not 

 Fringilla caudacuta, Lath.). Fringilla caudncuta, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 70, 

 pi. xxxiv, f. 3. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 281 ; V, 499, pi. cxlix. Fringilla (Spiza) 

 caudacuta, Bon. Syn. 1828, 110. Passerina caudacuta, Vieillot. Ammodramus 

 caudacutus, Swainson, Birds, 11, 1837, 289. — Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 111. — Ib. Birds 

 Am. Ill, 1841, 108, pi. clxxiv. — Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 482. — Baird, Birds N. 

 Am. 1858, 453. — Samuels, 307. Fringilla littoralis, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 504 

 (2d ed. 1840, 590). Sharp-tailed Oriole, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 261, New York. 



Sp. Char. Upper parts brownish-olivaceous. Head brownish, streaked with black on 

 the sides, and a broad central stripe of ashy. Back blotched with darker; edges of in- 

 terscapular feathers and inner secondaries whitish, just exterior to a blackish suffusion. 

 A broad superciliary and maxillary stripe, meeting behind the ashy ear-coverts, 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 whitish. Edge of wing yel- 

 lowish-white. Bill yellowish below; dusky 

 above. The female appears to have more 

 buff on the breast than the male. Length, 

 5 inches ; wing, 2. .30. 



Hab. Atlantic coast of the United 

 States. 



The young is of a move yellowish 

 tinge above and below ; the streaks 

 on the back more conspicuous ; the 

 scapular feathers without the whitish 

 edging. 



In autumnal and winter specimens the buff tints are much deeper than in 





Aimnodromux rnuriacutus. 



