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e. Passerherbulus maritinms macgillivraii (AUDUBON). Macgillivray's Sea- 

 side Sparrow. [550d.j 



Fringilla macgillivraii AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 285. (Near 

 Charleston, South Carolina.) 



RANGE. South Atlantic coast. Breeds from North Carolina to Georgia 

 and northern Florida; winters along the Gulf coast to Louisiana. 



Passerherbulus nigrescens (RIDGWAY). Dusky Seaside Sparrow. 

 [551.] 



Ammodromus maritimus var. nigrescens RIDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., V, 

 Dec., 1873, 198. (Merritt Island, Florida.) 



RANGE. Marshes at northern end of Indian River, east coast of 

 Florida. 



GENUS CHONDESTES SWAINSON. 



Chondestes SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 435. Type, 

 by monotypy, Chondestes strigatus SWAINSON. 



Chondestes grammacus (SAY). 



RANGE. Mississippi Valley to the Pacific coast, north to Sas- 

 katchewan Valley, south to Mexican plateau, and in winter south to 

 Guatemala. 



a. Chondestes grammacus grammacus (SAY). Lark Sparrow. [552.] 



Fringilla grammaca SAY, in Long's Exped., I, 1823, 139 (note). (Belle- 

 fontaine, 4 miles from mouth of Missouri River, Missouri.) 



RANGE. Mississippi Valley east of the Great Plains. Breeds mainly in 

 Austral zones from eastern Nebraska, northwestern Minnesota, central Wis- 

 consin, and southern Ontario south to southern Louisiana and central Ala- 

 bama and east to western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and northwestern 

 West Virginia; casual in Nova Scotia, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, 

 District of Columbia, North Carolina, and Florida; winter home unknown 

 except in southern Mississippi. 



b. Chondestes grammacus strigatus SWAINSON. Western Lark Sparrow. 

 [552a.] 



Chondestes strigatus SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 435. 

 (Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 



