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COTURIMICULUS AUSTRALIS. 

 Southern Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



Amm-iilramns au^stralis Maynanl Am. Exchange and Mart, Jan l."/th. 1SS7. 



Plate XXXV 11. 



DESCRIPTION. - 



Sp. Ch. Size, form and general oloration of the Yellnv-winged Sparrmv. hut darker above with less 

 buffy edging to the feather.= of the back. Beneath there is a band of decidedly ochracious crossing the buff 

 of the breast, and this band is streaked with reddish of much the same color as reddish markings of the back. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



In thus naming the Southern form of the Yellow-winged Sparrow I am merely following mv 

 convictions that there is, b)tli in the Banamas and in Southern Florida, a resident form of Yellow-winged 

 sparrow which is permanently streaked across the breast, not transiently so, as in some autumnal specimens 

 of C. i>asserinus. Above, this species is colored most like the West Indian C. savannarum, but this form is 

 not permanently streaked : in fact, an autumnal bird of this species taken at Barbican, St. Andrews, Jamaica, 

 November ilth, ISbil, shows no trace of streakings, but the breast is rather ocraceous. 



HABITS. 



Tlie first speciniens which T evci' saw of this spocies I obtaineil on a sand iiiouiiil, 

 which was thrown up in constructing a partly completed fort that stands about nii(lwa\- 

 of the eastern shore of Key West, the first week in Deceml)er, 1870. Tliis mound was 

 covered with grass and in this slielter tlie sparrows were quite common. I also obtained 

 specimens on the west coast of Florida in April, 1874, and in 1884 obtained two or three 

 more on Key West in the second week in January. 



Januar\' 26, 1884, I secured a pair on an old plantation to the westward of Nassau, 

 Bahamas. On February 21, I got another not far from the same place, and on March 

 14th shot two more and saw another. As late as April 12th I obtained a specimen to the 

 eastward of Nassau. All of the Itirds mentioned from Florida and the Bahamas were 

 typical Southern Yellow-wings. 



The Southern Y'ellow-winged Sparrow is more difficult to start from concealment 

 than is the northern species and when on the wing its movements are more rapid and its 

 Might more eccentric. It never takes long liights and wlicn down runs nimbly through 

 the grass. I have never heard a song from this species, but tlie alarm note is a short, 

 f^harp chirp not unlike that of Henslow's Si)arrow. In fact, in genei-al habit this species 

 appears to be intermediate between the Northern Y"ellow-wing and Henslows. 



COTURNICULUS HENSLOWI.. 

 Henslow's Sparrow, 



Coturniculus henslowi, Bon., List, 1838. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Ch. Size, small ; form, slender. Bill, about as stout as in the Yellow-winged Sparrow, but 

 shorter, and the tail feathers are more accuminate. 



Color, adult. Top and sides of head and back of neck, greenish buff, with center of feathers of top of 



