540 XORTir AMERICAN lUUDS. 



Mat'k stripes. Tlie lnnad lateral stript's of the crown are deep olive or liair- 

 browii, with narrow, sliarply detiiied, intense l>l;uk streaks, instead of ])ale 

 grayish as in (fhnnliiuis (sjirinu <lress), or liglit hrown as in sarcnuia (spring), 

 with broader, h'ss dee]>, hhuk streaks. 



II.VBITS. Tlie Shore Sparrow of California is .said to he, to a rrniarkahle 

 dei^n-ee, the peculiar marsh s])eeies of tlie Pacific coa.st of that State. Dr. 

 Cooper states that he very rarely met with these birds out of the salt marshes, 

 where they lie so close and run so stealthilv amom: tlie weeds that thev are 

 flushed with ditlicultv. They rise only t(» fly a few r(»ds, and drcu) aj^rain 

 into their covert. They are not at all iire«:ari(»us, except when migratinj^, and 

 are found sin«dy or by pairs. They are alamdant about San Francisco in tlie 

 winter, thoujj^h l)r. Coo])er is not sure that any are found so far .south in the 

 summer. Near San Dieijo, in February, they had alreaily be«j:un to utter 

 their short and jilea.sant song, as they perched on the top of some tall weed. 

 Dr. Coo])er observed them in that neighborhood into April, but did not 

 succeed in finding any of their nests, nor was he ever able to meet with this 

 sjiecies at San Pedro in summer. 



Dr. Coues speaks of (Ibis, 1800, p. 208) finding three species of the diffi- 

 cult group of P((ssr)rt(h', and all of them very abundant, in Southern Califor- 

 nia in November. These were J\ royitrntiix, P. ohuidniu^i, and P. (inthinna. 

 The aufliiiu's seemed confined to the moist salt gm-ss and sedgy weeds of the 

 sea-shore itself. It was flushed with ureat ditficulty, and then its flijiht was 

 very rapid and irregular. It would alight again almost immediately, and run 

 with great celerity among the roots of the thick grasses, and was therefore 

 exceedingly difficult to procure. P. alaiuHiuis was common two or three 

 miles away from the coast, but Pr. Coues did not find one mixing with 

 P. anthinns. It was a brush and weed, rather than a grass, species, associating 

 %vith Antkus hidoi'icianuii and Zoiwtrichiu roiwiata. 



Fasserculus princeps, ^Iaynard. 



IPSWICH 8PABB0W. 



Ccntron}jr hairdi, Maynapj), Naturalist's (luidc, 1870, 117, frontispiece (Ipswieh, Mass.). 

 Fassercuhis princeps, Mayxaud, Amerioan Naturalist, 1872. 



Sp. Ciiau. Bill small, exactly tlio sanio in form and size a«? that of Cenfront/x bnirdi, 

 but proportionally smaller ; teitials seareely ex('e<vlinii' llie st^condaries ; tail emarginate, 

 the feathers acute, the intermediiP attenuated terminally. Outstretched feet reaching 

 about half-way to tlic end of the tail. In color almost exactly like /*. rosirufus, hut dif- 

 ferent in markings. Ahove light ashy, the dorsal feathers light sandy-hrown centrally, 

 producing an obsoletely spotted a'ppearance; shal'ts of dorsal feathers black. Outer sur- 

 face of the wings pal«? sandy-bi-own. the feathers darker centrally ; tertials with their 

 outer webs whitish, and with a conspicuous black ceiitral area. Crown becoming darker 

 blown anteriorly, where it is divided by a rather indistinct line of <tchraceous-white ; an 

 nulistinct superciliary stripe, and a .cry conspicuous maxillary stripe of the same; the 

 latter bordered above, from the i ictus to the end of the auriculars, by a narrow stripe of 



