Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked. 
550. Seaside Sparrow (4mmodramus marttimus). 
L. 6: W. 2.5. Tail-feathers pointed, the outer ones 
shortest; spot before eye and bend of wing yellow. 
Ads, Above olive-green and gray (no black); below 
white, breast and sides grayish and, in first plumage, 
streaked with buff. Nofes. Similar in character to 
those of No. 540. 
Range.—Atlantic coast; breedsin salt marshes from North Carolina 
to southern Massachusetts; winters from Virginia to Georgia. 
550a. Scott Seaside Sparrow (4. m. peninsula). 
Similar to No. 550, but smaller, W. 2.3; above black 
margined by olive-brown and olive-green; below whit- 
ish, breast and sides heavily streaked with blackish. 
Range.—Atlantic coast from northeastern Florida to South Caro- 
lina; Gulf Coast of Florida. 
550b. Texas Seaside Sparrow (4. m. sennetii). 
Similar to No. 550, but greener above; the feathers of 
head and back usually, those of nape always, with 
black centres. 
Range.—Coast of Texas. 
550c. Fisher Seaside Sparrow (4. m. fisher). 7 
Similar to No. 550a, but darker above, the breast and 
sides heavily washed with rusty buff and streaked 
with black. 
Range.—Coast of Louisiana, south in winter, at least as far as 
Corpus Christi, Texas; casual on Guif coast of Florida. 
550d. Macgillivray Seaside Sparrow (4. m. mac- , 
gillroratt). Similar to No. 550c, but above grayer, d 
less black, breast and flanks but faintly washed 
with buff and streaked with dusky grayish. Grayer 
above than No. 550a, and less heavily streaked below. 
Range.—Local on coast of South Carolina. 
551. Dusky Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus nigres- 
cens). L.5.9. Above black lightly margined with 
gray; below white heavily streaked with black; spot 
beforeeye and bend of yellow. Notes. Similar in 
character to those of No. 550. i 
Range.—Marshes at head of Indian River, Florida, from Banana 
River to Haulover Canal. 
583. Lincoln Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnit). L.5.7. : 
Ads. A_ broad buff band across the breast; center of 
crown with a gray stripe, its sides striped chestnut and 4 
black; back grayish brown streaked with black and 
chestnut, below streaked with black except on middle 
of white belly. Notes. Call, a sharp chirp; song, 
suggests bubbling, guttural notes of House Wren com- 
bined with rippling music of the Purple Finch. 
(Dwight.) (See, also, Brewster, Bird-Lore II, P. rrr.) 
Range.— North America: breeds from northern New York, northern 
Illinois and higher parts of Rockies and Sierra north to Alaska: 
winters from southern Illinois and southtrn California into Mexico; 
rare east of Alleghanies. 
583a. Forbush Sparrow (M. J. striata). Similar 
to No. 583, but browner above, crown-stripe and line 
over eye more brown than gray. 
Range.—Pacific coast from British Columbia to California; breed- 
ing range unknown, : if 
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