IO Chapman, The Seaside Sparrows. \j&n. 



Dr. Faxon had shown, he figured and described specimens col- 

 lected near Charleston by Dr. Bachman. In support of this 

 statement see Volume II, page 285 of the Ornithological Biog- 

 raphy, on which Audubon states that Bachman presented him with 

 a dozen specimens of this Sparrow collected near Charleston, where 

 J. W. Audubon made the drawing which was afterward published 

 in the fourth volume of the 'Birds of America.' No mention is 

 made in Volume II of Texas and Louisiana, where the bird was 

 evidently not discovered until several years later, being first 

 recorded from these States in Volume IV, page 394, of the 

 'Ornithological Biography,' published in 1838, or four years 

 after the description of ' Fringilla macgillitiraii'' from Charleston. 



The specimen upon which this description was probably based 

 is now in the U. S. Nat. Mus. (No. 2894) but is without date or 

 locality. It is a young bird in first plumage, of the same age as 

 the specimen taken at Mt. Pleasant, S. C, Aug. 10, 1893, from 

 which it differs no more than do immature specimens of mariti- 

 mus from one another. 



If this view .of the case be accepted it will permit us to give 

 the Louisiana bird a name of its own, a course which the speci- 

 mens involved seem to warrant. And I therefore propose to 

 name it in honor of Dr. A. K. Fisher who, after Audubon, was 

 the first ornithologist to secure specimens of the Louisiana bird. 

 Hence we have 



Ammodramus maritimus fisheri, subsp. nov. 



Ammodramus macgillivraii Aud. (in part) Orn. Biog. IV, 183S, 394. 



Ammodramus maritimus macgillivrayi Ridgw. Manual N. A. Birds, 

 2d Ed., 1S96, App. 602. 



Ammodramus maritimus peninsula? Allen (in part), Auk, V, 1S8S, 284. 



Ammodramus maritimus peninsula;? Chapm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., Ill, 1891, 324. 



Char. Subsp. — Upper parts deep black, in fresh plumage the feathers 

 bordered by mummy brown and margined with bluish gray, the breast 

 and flanks streaked with black and more or less heavily washed by pale 

 ochraceous. 



Type, No. 163,722, U. S. Nat. Mus. Collected by A. K. Fisher, M. D. 

 Collector's number No. 2622, $ ad., egg in oviduct, Grand Isle, Louisiana, 

 June 9, 1886. 



