68 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



This northern Seaside Finch is migratory, coming the 

 latter part of April and remaining until the latter hall 

 of October, but in the South there are several races which 

 for the most part are resident in the same locality through- 

 out the year. Thus we have: : 



MacgiUivray's Seaside Sparrow (P. m. macgilliwaii). — i 

 Atlantic Coast from North Carolina south to Matanzaa] 

 Islet, Florida. Dusky Seaside Sparrow (P. nigrescens) ,'• 

 an almost black species from Merritt's Island, at the head 

 of Indian River, Florida. Cape Sable Sparrow {P. m. 

 mirdbilis), Cape Sable, Florida. Scott's Seaside Sparrow 

 (P. m. peninsula), Gulf Coast of Florida from Tampa to 

 St. Marks; Northwest Florida Sparrow (P. m. juncicold) 

 Coast of Florida west of St. Marks; Alabama Seaside 

 Sparrow (P. m. howelli), Coast of Alabama and Mis- 

 sissippi. Louisiana Seaside Sparrow (P. m. fisheri), 

 Coast of Louisiana to Northeast Texas; and Sennett's 

 Seaside Sparrow (P. m. sennetti), Coast of Texas from 

 Galveston at least to Corpus Christi. 



LARK SPARROW 

 Chondestes grammacus grammacus. Case 7, Fig. 19 



The chestnut and white head markings and the white-tipped 

 tail-feathers are conspicuous field-marks. L. 6J. 



Range. Mississippi Valley; nests from Louisiana to Minne- 

 sota and Ohio; winters from Mississippi southward; casual 

 east of the Alleghanies, chiefly in the fall. 



Washington, A. V., Aug., two captures. N. Ohio, rare S. R. t 

 Apl. 28. Glen Ellyn, local and uncommon S. R. SE. Minn., 

 common S. R., Apl. 20-Aug. 2. 



Few field experiences have given me more pleasure than 

 the discovery near my home at Englewood one November 

 2, many years ago, of a Lark Finch — one of the 'casuals' 

 which had presumably been carried far from its course 

 by a severe storm of the preceding days. The bird's 

 strongly -narked face and conspicuously white-tipped 



