FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 67 



It resembles the Sharp-tail in habits and when on the coast, 

 may be found associated with it. 



The Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow (P. n. subvirgalus) 

 is similar to the Sharp-tailed Sparrow but is paler above; 

 the throat, breast and sides are washed with cream-buff 

 and indistinctly streaked with ashy. It nests on the 

 salt marshes of the Atlantic coast from Maine to Cape 

 Breton and in Prince Edward Island; and winters from 

 South Carolina to Florida. In general habits it resembles 

 the two preceding. 



The three Sharp-tails may be distinguished chiefly by 

 the color and markings of the breast. In the Sharp-tail 

 these are pale buff distinctly streaked with blackish. In 

 Nelson's they are deep buff lightly if at all streaked. In 

 the Acadian they are cream-buff indistinctly streaked 

 with grayish. The Sharp-tail may be known from the 

 other two by its distinct black marks below, but the other 

 two cannot certainly be distinguished from each other in 

 life where both may be expected to occur. 



SEASIDE SPARROW 



Passerherbulrts maritimus maritimus. Case 6, Fig. 46 



An olive-greenish Sparrow, with a yellow mark before the eye 

 and on the bend of the wing; the underparts not distinctly 

 streaked. L. 6. 



Range. Salt marshes of the Atlantic Coast; nests from Vir- 

 ginia to Massachusetts; winters from Virginia to Georgia. 



In the Piermont marsh, referred to under the Sharp- 

 tailed Sparrow, there are Seasides as well as Sharp-tails, 

 but this is the only place in which I have seen Seasides 

 away from the sea. There they are abundant in the 

 grassy marshes. Their song is weak and unattractive. 

 Like the Sharp-tail they nest on the ground, laying 3-4 

 white or bluish white eggs, clouded or finely speckled 

 with cinnamon-brown, the latter part of May. 



