Descriptive List 



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The only specimen of Leconte's Sparrow so far recorded from North Carolina 

 was taken by C. S. Brimlcy on the edge of a marsh near Raleigh, April 21, 1894. 

 It can be expected to occur only as an accidental migrant or a mnter visitor. 



Fia. 188. Leconte's Sparrow. 



228. Passerherbulus caudacutus (Gmel.). Sharp-tailed sparrow. 



Description: Ads. — General oolor of tlie upperparts a brownish olive-green; crown olive- 

 brown, with a blue-gray line fhrough its center; gray ear-coverts, inclosed by ochraceous-buff 

 lines, one of which passes over the eye and one down the side of the throat; feathers of the back 

 margined with grayish and sometimes whitish; bend of the wing yellow; tail-feathers narrow and 

 sharply pointed, the outer feathers much the shortest; breast and sides washed with buft'y, paler 

 in summer, and distinctly streaked with black; middle of the throat and belly white or whitish. 

 "L., 5.85; W., 2.30; T., 1.90; B., .50"— (Dwight). (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. — Salt-marshes of Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to North Carohna. 



Range in North Carolina. — Salt-marshes of coast; so far, only recorded from the Beaufort 

 region and northward. 





Pig. 189. Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 



The Sharp-tailed Sparrow is known in this State as a winter visitor in the neigh- 

 borhood of Beaufort and on Pea Island. Coues records it at the former place 

 as abundant from October until May, some occurring in September. Bishop 

 says it is a rather common winter resident in the marshes of Pea Island, giving 

 the date of May 11 (in 1901) as its latest spring appearance. Smithwick calls it 

 a common siunmer resident in the marshes of the northeastern section of the State. 



229. Passerherbulus nelsoni nelsoni {AWen). Nelson's Sparrow. 



Description. — Similar to caudacutus, but smaller, the upperparts darker, the feathers of the 

 back more olive-brown and more broadly margined with wliitish; the throat, breast, and sides 

 deeper ochraceous-buff, very slightly, if at all, streaked with blackish. "L., 5.50; W., 2.25; T., 

 1.90; B., .43"— (DwiGHT). (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. — Mainly fresh-water marshes of JNIississippi ^'aOey, east in winter to Atlantic coast. 



Range in North Carolina. — So far, only known from Pea Island. 



