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at other places/ Grasshopper sparrows were also found by Mr. 
Mortimer about Sanford, Orange County, Florida, in March, 1889,^ 
which may have been the breeding form, as I found them mated early 
in March. Mr. Chapman found only northern migrants between 
November 27 and May 27, at Gainesville, Florida.^ 
Comparisons. — Coturniculus savannarum savannarwn (Gmelin), the 
resident form of Jamaica and Porto Rico, is much paler above, and 
much more ochraceous below. The bill of the Jamaican bird is per- 
ceptibly larger. The characters given above readily separatej^(>ri6^6m'MS 
from the forms passer Inus and hiniaculatus {=peri)allidus). Cotur- 
niculus obscurus (Nelson), while an intensely colored form, as dark 
above as the present one, differs in being smaller, and in having the 
underparts strongly buffy and sharply streaked on the breast, the 
wings and tail being much shorter, and the edge of the wing more 
intensely j'ellow. I refer only to the males of Coturniculus obscurus., 
two species being confounded, apparently, in the original description. 
RemarlxS.—\ am indebted to Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., for kindly 
comparing the type of Ammodramus australis Maynard,* in his pos- 
session, with passerinus and florldanus. The type of australis., whish 
came fi»om Nassau, island of New Providence, Bahama group, proves 
to have been a typical migrant of Coturnicidus savannarum passeri- 
nus., which migrates to the Bahamas, Cuba, and all parts of Florida 
in winter. 
iThe Auk, VI, Oct., 1889, pp. 321-322. 
2 Idem, VII, Oct., 1890, p. 342. 
3 Idem, V, July, 1888, p. 274; Oct., 1888, p. 398. 
^American Exchange and Mart and Household Journal, III, Feb. 5, 1887, p. 69. 
See also: Ornithologist and Oologist, XIV, Apr., 1889, p. 60. 
