THE IPSWICH SPARROW. 21 
1883 (New York); Auk, I, 31, 1884 (= previous record) ; zé¢d. II, 36, 1885 (many 
specimens from Long Island, N. Y.).— Grirrrnc, O. and O. VIII, 22, 1883 (New 
York).— Smitu, F. and S. XIX, 466, 1883 (Maine, rare in spring).— LaNGILLE, Bds. 
E. N. Am., 199, 1884 (mere mention).— BisHop, O. and O. X, 30, 1885 (Connecticut). 
— Dwicut, Auk, II, 105, 1885 (Delaware). 
Passerculus maynardi, Batrp, Brew. and Ripcw., Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, 541, 
1874 (dapsus penne in text). 
Zonotrichia princeps, GirpeL, Thes. Orn. III, 38, 772, 1877 (Passerculus a 
synonym of Zonotrichia). 
Ammodramus princeps, Rripcway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. VIII, 354, 1885 
(placed in genus Ammodramus); Man. N. Am. Bds., 407, 1887.— ALLEN, Bull. Amer. 
Mus., I, no. 7, 251, 1886; Auk, X, 126, 1893 (faunal relations).— A. O. U., Check-List, 
265, 1886; zbid. abridged ed., 48, 1889.— Dutcuer, Auk, III, 441, 1886 (distribution, 
food); F. and S., XXXIV, 206, 1890.— Jones, Auk, III, 135, 1886 (Nova Scotia 
mainland in spring).— Sennett, Auk, III, 135, 1886 (Texas, probable error in label). 
— CHAMBERLAIN, Cat. Canad. Bds., 85, 1887 (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia); Table 
Canad. Bds., 10, 1888; Ornith. U. S. and Can. (revis. Nuttall’s Man.) I, 326, 1891 
(brief mention)— Cooker, Migrat. Miss. Valley, 188, 1888 (occurrence in Texas 
doubted).— Jorpan, Man. Verteb. 5th ed. 286, 1888.— SHARPE, Cat. Passerif. pt. III, 
679, 1888 (synonymy, description).— BisHop, Auk, VI, 199, 1889.— Brown, Proc. 
Portl. Soc. 39, 1889.— Daviz, Nests and Eggs, 3d ed. 298, 1889 (=, practically, 
Ridgw. Auk, 1884).— Maynarp, Eggs N. Am. Bds. 104, 1890 (authenticated eggs 
unknown).— J. Netson, Geol. Surv. N. J. II, 541, 1890.— Rives, Proc. Newport Soc. 
N. H., Doce. VII, 73, 1890 (Virginia).— Wortuincton, Auk, VII, 211, 1890 (Georgia). 
— AVERILL, Bridgeport Sci. Soc. 14, 1892 (Connecticut, rare).— LAURENT, O. and O. 
XVII, 88, 1892 (New Jersey).— Stone, Auk, IX, 204, 1892; Bds. E. Penn. and N. J. 
112, 1894 (New Jersey, winter resident).— Apcar, Key, 28, 1893.— Brewster, Auk, 
X, 302, 1893 (= Worthington, 1890); 7zd., X, 365.— CHapMan, Bds. Vicin. N. Y. 
City, 59, 1894 (winter resident); Handb. Bds. East. N. A. 291, 1895.— Wricut, Bird- 
craft, 146, 1895. 
Large Barren Ground Sparrow, Ipswich Sparrow, Pallid Sparrow, Maynard’s 
Sparrow, Ipswich Savanna Sparrow, of authors. 
HABITAT. 
Sable Island, Nova Scotia, partly resident. In migration confined closely 
to the seacoast southward, wintering casually in New England, more abun- 
dantly from New York to Virginia, and occasionally reaching Georgia. 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Male and female in breeding plumage-— Top of head sepia brown! with darker 
streaking and a median ashy white line; rest of upper parts ashy or smoke gray, 
most pronounced on the nape, obscurely streaked on the neck and rump, broadly 
1 Ridgway’s nomenclature of colors is used in these descriptions. 
