540 NOimi AMERICAN- ItllUW. 



liluL'k strijje.s. The Inoud latoval stripes of tlie crowii are deep olive or hair- 

 brown, witli narrow, sliari)ly (IcfiniMl, intense black streaks, insteail of ])alo 

 j,'ra3'isli as in (ilniti/iiins (sprinji (hess), or light brown as in xdnntiiK (spring), 

 with broader, less dee]), black streaks. 



IIaiuts. The Shori' Sparrow of California is said to be, to a remarkable 

 degree, the peeuliar marsh species of the Pacitie coast of that State. Dr. 

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

 where they lie so close and run so stealthily among the weeds that they are 

 Hushed with dillicnlty. They ri.se only to Hy a few rods, and drop again 

 into their covert. They are not at all gregarious, except when migrating, ami 

 are found singly or by pairs. They are abundant about San Francisco in the 

 winter, though Dr. Coo])er is not sure that any are i'ound so far south in the 

 snmmer. Near San J)iego, in February, they had already begun to utter 

 their short and pleasant song, as they jterched on the top of some tall weed. 

 Dr. Coojter observed them in that neighitorhood into April, but did not 

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

 sjiecies at San I'edro in sunnuer. 



Dr. Cones speaks of (Ibis, 1 8(5(1, p. 208) finding three species of the diffi- 

 cult group oi Fiooiercnli, and all of them very abundant, in Southern Calilbr- 

 nia in November. These were /'. roxtnt/iis, P. (ilnndinm, ami V. inithiniii^. 

 The antln'iiiis seemed confined to the moist salt gmss and sedgy weeds of the 

 sea-shore it.self. It was llushe<l with great difficult} and then its ilight was 

 very rapid and irregular. It would alight again almost immediatel}', and run 

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

 exceedingly difficult to procure. /'. alinuliniai was common two or three 

 miles away from the coast, but Dr. Coui's did not find one mixing with 

 P. anthiiiiid. It was a brush and weed, rather than a gra.ss, species, associating 

 with Anthus ludoviciaims and Zoiiotrichia eoronata. 



Fasserculus princeps, Mavxaud. 



IPSWICH SFARBOW. 



Ccntronijr bairdi, Mavnaiu), Natiirnli.st's Oiiiili-, 1870, 117, froiitispinee (Ipswii'li, Mas.s.). 

 Passerciiltiy. princeps, May.naiiii, Aiiidiiiiin Naturalist, 1872. 



Sp. Ciiau. Bill sin.ill, exactly tlic sanio in furni and size as that of Cdilrm))/.r. bnirdi, 

 but [jioportioiially sinalliM- ; tcrtials scarcely exceeding; llic sccoiiiiarics ; tail ciiiai'fiiiiatc, 

 the IcalluM-s acute, the intermedia' atteiniatcil teiiniiially. Oiitstrelclicil feet reaeliiiifj; 

 about lialf-way to the t'liil of the tail. In coloi- almost exactly like /'. roslvatuii, but dif- 

 fei-ciU ill inaikin};s. Above ligiit ashy, the dorsal feathers li^dit saiidy-l)i'own centrally, 

 producing an obsoletely spotted appearance; shafts of dorsal feathers black. Outer snr- 

 fac<! of tlu- winirs pale sandy-biown. the feathers darker centrally; terti.ils with their 

 outer \vcl)s whitish, and with a coiispicnoiis black central area. Crown becouiiilir darker 

 liiown anteriorly, where it is divided by a rather indistinct line of ochraciiins-white ; an 

 mdistinct siiperciliai-y stripe", and a very conspicnons maxillary stripe of the same; thu 

 latter bordered above, from the rictus to the end of the am'iculars, by a mwrow stripe of 



