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the dusky breast indistinctly streaked with whitish are good 

 distinguishing marks of this species, but a dusky and white 

 strix^e at each side of 

 the white throat and 

 the absence of any 

 tint of reddish brown 

 are still more charac- 

 teristic. It is a 

 ground bird, found 

 nearly always among 

 the reeds and grasses 

 within both sight and 

 sound of the sea. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 2f 



(2]-2i) ; tail, 2|; tarsus, c .j c, 



, ^ -/ t Ail »• Seaside Sparrow 



l ; cuhnen, |. Atlantic '^ 



coast ; breeding from Georgia to Massachusetts, and wintering from 



Virginia southward. Scott's Seaside Sparrow (550". A. in. peninsulce) 



is a south Atlantic and Gulf coast variety of a very much darker color. 



26. Dusky Seaside Sparrow (551. Ammddramus nigr&scens). — 

 A Florida species more nearly like Scott's seaside sparrow than 

 any other form, but differing in having the feathers of the upper 



parts black, with gray- 

 ish edges, and the 

 under parts sharply 

 streaked with about 

 equal amounts of 

 black and white. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 2| ; 

 tail,2|; tarsus, J; cul- 

 men, \. Eastern Florida. 



27. Lark Sparrow 



Lark Sparrow (552. Ohondistes 



grdmmacus). — A common, western, ground-living, lark-like, 



streaky sparrow, with black and white tail, ashy-brown back, 



and a striped white and chestnut-colored head. The central 



