SEASIDE SPARROW. 



550. Ammodramus maritimus. 6 inches. 



Yellow spot before the eye. General plumage above 

 grayish green with no black markings. All the habits 

 of the Seaside Sparrows are precisely like those of 

 the Sharp-tailed Sparrows. The nests and eggs are 

 indistinguishable and are often found in the same 

 marshes; the songs also are practically the same, but 

 the birds can easily be separated upon sight by the 

 different tones to their plumages. 



Sub-species. 550a. Scott Seaside Sparrow (penin- 

 sulae), slightly smaller and with the back marked 

 with black and brownish green, and the sides streaked 

 with blackish; South Atlantic coast. 550b. Texas Sea- 

 side Sparrow (sennetti), greener above than No. 550, 

 and with black centers to the feathers; coast of Texas. 

 550c. Fisher Seaside Sparrow (fisheri), darker above 

 than scotti and with the breast and sides heavily 

 washed with rusty and streaked with black; coast of 

 Louisiana. 550d. Macgillivray Seaside Sparrow (mac- 

 gillivrayii), grayer and paler than fisheri; coast of 

 South Carolina. 



