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e. Passerherbulus maritimus macgillivraii (AupUBON). Macgillivray’s Sea- 
side Sparrow. [550d.] 
Fringilla macgillivrati Aupuspon, Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 285. (Near 
Charleston, South Carolina.) 
Rance.— South Atlantic coast. Breeds from North Carolina to Georgia 
and northern Florida; winters along the Gulf coast to Louisiana. 
Passerherbulus nigréscens (RipGway). Dusky Seaside Sparrow. 
[551.] 
Ammodromus maritimus var. nigrescens RipaGway, Bull. Essex Inst., V 
Dec., 1873, 198. (Merritt Island, Florida.) 
Rance.— Marshes at northern end of Indian River, east coast of 
Florida. 
GENUS CHONDESTES Swainson. 
Chondestes Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 435. Type, 
by monotypy, Chondestes strigatus SWAINSON. 
Chondéstes grammacus (Say). 
RanGE.— Mississippi Valley to the Pacific coast, north to Sas- 
katchewan Valley, south to Mexican plateau, and in winter south to 
Guatemala. 
a. Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say). Lark Sparrow. [552.] 
Fringilla grammaca Say, in Long’s Exped., I, 1823, 139 (note). (Belle- 
fontaine, 4 miles from mouth of Missouri River, Missouri.) 
RanceE.— Mississippi Valley east of the Great Plains. Breeds mainly in 
Austral zones from eastern Nebraska, northwestern Minnesota, central Wis- 
consin, and southern Ontario south to southern Louisiana and central Ala- 
bama and east to western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and northwestern 
West Virginia; casual in Nova Scotia, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, 
District of Columbia, North Carolina, and Florida; winter home unknown 
except in southern Mississippi. 
b. Chondestes grammacus strigdtus Swarnson. Western Lark Sparrow. 
[552a.] 
Chondestes strigatus SwAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. 8., I, June, 1827, 435. 
(Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 
