8 Chapman, The Seaside Sparrows. \JvL 



ciably darker than comparable Long Island birds and apparently 

 indicates an approach to the peninsula type, as it is represented 

 on the Atlantic coast by birds similar to the ten specimens first 

 mentioned. To this intermediate, South Atlantic form of mariti- 

 mus I refer with some confidence Brewster's breeding birds from St. 

 Mary's, Georgia, and Robinson's breeding birds from the vicinity 

 of St. Augustine and Matanzas Inlet, Florida. These birds, I am 

 aware, have been referred to true maritimus and their plumage is 

 in such worn condition that it is true they closely resemble, at 

 first sight, Long Island specimens of that species. Carefully 

 compared, however, with equally worn Long Island birds, they 

 are grayer and more streaked below, while the lateral stripes of 

 the crown, areas which seem least to show abrasion, are darker 

 than in maritimus, being raw-umber as in peninsula, agreeing in 

 fact, considering their abrasion, very closely in the color of this 

 region with the ten specimens which I have spoken of as inter- 

 mediate between maritimus and peninsula. 



Accepting this identification, what shall we call this dark 

 representative of AmmoJramus maritimus which apparently is a 

 permanent resident on the Atlantic coast from at least St. Augus- 

 tine to Charleston ? Individually they have for the most part 

 been identified as peninsula, and while they have longer bills and 

 are less green above and less heavily streaked below than true 

 peninsula, they are so much nearer to this form than to maritimus, 

 that I should prefer to refer them to the former rather than to 

 the latter, or rather than to accept the alternative of giving them 

 a name of their own. 



This leaves us with six specimens of the South Carolina and 

 Georgia series which can be referred to neither maritimus nor 

 peninsula. Three of these birds are in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum (Nos. 159387, 9, Oct. 24, 1893 ; 

 No. 159383, 9, Oct. 27, 1893; No. 159657, 9, Oct. 23, 1895, 

 all taken at Mount Pleasant, So. Car.), and three are in Mr. 

 Brewster's collection (No. 19047, 9, Dec. 3, 1887, Sapelo Is., 

 Ga.; No. 45753> $ > Nov - 2 7> l8 94 and No. 47 6 5 6 > ?» A P ril J 7> 

 1897, Mount Pleasant, So. Car.). In the coloration of the upper 

 parts they resemble the dark, west Gulf coast bird, but the 

 black of the feathers of the upper parts is margined with olive 



