BIRBS: — FKINGILLIDAE — AMMODROMUS CAUDACUTUS. 



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' Under mandible yellowis^ a superciliary and maxillary stripe liglit chestnut, the latter 

 bordered below by black ; feathers of back sharply edged with yellowish ; breast and sides tinged 



with brownish yellow with very distinct streaks A. caudacutus. 



Back with distinct dusky streaks, but without well defined light edges ; beneath white ; sides 

 of neck and body, and across the breast, with black streaks ; maxillary stripe white ; wing 

 coverts orange rufous, and no yellow on the edge of the wing A. samiidis. 



Comparative measurements of species. 



AMMODROMUS CAUDACUTUS, Swains on. 



.1^ Sharp-tailed Finch. 



Oriolus caudacutus, Gmelih, I, 1788, 394. — Latham, Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 186. (Not Fringilla caudacula, Lath.) 

 Frm^lla caudacuta, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 70 ; pi. xxxiv, f. 3.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 281 : V, 499 ; pi. 

 149. 

 Jffringilla (^Spiza) caudacuta, Bon. Syn. 1838, 110. 

 Passerina caudacuta, Vieillot, • 



Ammodramus caudacutus, Swainson, Birds, II, 1837, 989. — Add. Synopsis, 1839, 111. — Ib. Birds Amer. lit, 1841, 



108 ; pi. 174.— BoNAP. Conspectus, 1850, 482. 

 Fririgilla littoralis, Ncttall, Man. I, 1832, 504. (,2d ed. 1840, 590.) 

 Sharp-tailed oriole. Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 261. New York. 



Sf. Ch. — ^Upper parts brownish olivaceous. Head brownish, streaked with black on tbe sides, and a broad central stripe of 

 ashy. Bach blotched with darker. A broad superciliary and maxillary stripe, and a band across the upper breast buff yellow. 

 The sides of the throat with a brown stripe ; the upper part of the breast, and the sides of the body streaked with black ; rest 

 of under parts white. Edge of wing yellowish white. Length, 5 inches ; wing^2.30. 



Hab. — Atlantic coast of the United States. 



The young is of a more yellowish tinge above and below ; the streaks on the back more 

 conspicuous ; the scapular feathers without the whitish edging. 



List of specimens. 



