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and age, though the colors may be darker and sharper, or brighter and more 
diffuse, according to season and wear of the feathers. Wits., iii, 55, pl. 22, 
f.1; Nurr., i, 489; Auvp., iii, 68, pl. 160; Bp., 442. P. alaudinus Bo., 
446; Coor., 181, is indistinguishable. . -, . . . . = = SAVANNA. 
Var. antutnus Bp., 445; Coopr., 183; Ett., pl. 13, may be recognized. Bill 
longer, slenderer (as in fig. 82); spots below very numerous, close, sharp, dark. 
California coast, abundant in the salt marshes. 
+ Var. SANDVICENSIS Bp., 444; Coor., 180. A large northern race: 6 or more 
long; bill 4, stout; head more yellowish. Northwest coast. 
Sea-shore Sparrow. With the form of a savanffa sparrow, but the bill 
elongated as in Ammodromus, yet very stout and turgid, with decidedly 
convex culmen, 4 an inch long. No evident yellowish over eye or on edge of 
wing ; no evident median stripe on crown. Brown- 
ish-gray, back and crown streaked with dusky, 
below dull white, confluently streaked with brown 
everywhere except on belly and crissum. Wings 
and tail dusky gray, the rectrices with paler edges, 
the primaries with whitish edges, the wing coverts 
and secondaries broadly edged and tipped with 
grayish-bay ; an obscure whitish superciliary line; under mandible yellow- 
Fic. 83. Sea-shore Sparrow. 
ish, legs pale; 543; wing 23; tail 2. Pacific coast, U. S.; a curious species, 
common, maritime, representing, with var. anthinus, the Amimodromi in the 
marshes of the seashore. Cass., Ill., 226, pl. 28; Bp., 446; Couss, Ibis, 
ISG66RE2Z68s COOP! G4 Wels nes. arenes 2) we es. SROSTRARUSS 
St. Lucas Sparrow. Similar to rostratus; same size; bill not so heavy : 
“A’ stripe of pale yellow runs from the bill to the eye, a longer stripe of pale 
yellow extends from the under mandible down the side of the throat * * * 
differs from all its allies in the obscure grayish coloring of the upper parts, 
with no reddish- brown, and in having its under plumage more closely and 
fully spotted.” San José, L. California; a variety of the last? Lawr., 
Ann. lye. Nat. Hist-eN. Yo. 1867, 47355) Coor., 1855008. EGULTATI Ss 
66. Genus POOECETES Baird. 
Bay-winged Bunting. Grass Finch. Thickly streaked everywhere above, 
on sides and across breast; no yellow anywhere; lesser wing coverts chest- 
nut and 1-3 pairs of outer tail feathers partly or wholly white. -Above 
grayish-brown, the streaking dusky and brown, with grayish-white ; below 
white, usually noticeably buffy-tinged, the streaks very numerous on the 
fore parts and sides; wing coverts and inner quills much edged and tipped 
with bay ; crown like back, without median stripe, line over, and ring round, 
eye, whitish; feet pale; 53-64; wing 2§-84, with inner secondaries 
lengthened; tail 24-23. North America; a rather large, stout species, 
known on sight by combination of chestnut lesser wing coverts and white 
outer tail feathers; the sexes are alike, and the variations in color are only 
such as are indicated under P. savanna; western specimens average paler 
and grayer, representing var. confinis Bp., 448. A very abundant bird, 
