BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 189 



PASSERCULUS PRINtEPS Maynard. 

 IPSWICH SPARROW. 



Exposed culmen not longer than hallux (without claw); wing more 

 than seven times as long as exposed culmen (averaging more than 

 76.20 mm.). 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above pale grayish, the pileum and back 

 streaked with pale brown and blackish (the latter inclosed as a narrow 

 mesial streak within the former); pileum with a narrow median stripe 

 of pale grayish buff or dull buffy whitish; broad superciliary stripe 

 similar, but paler (rarely yellowish) anteriorly; outer surface of ter- 

 tials and greater wing-coverts pale buffy brown; malar stripe pale buff 

 or whitish; under parts white, tinged laterally (sometimes across chest 

 also) with pale brownish buff, the chest and sides streaked with brown 

 (the streaks usually darker, sometimes blackish, medially); maxilla 

 dark brown or blackish, mandible paler; iris brown; legs and feet pale 

 brownish or dull straw color. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 134.62-153.67 (liS.OO); wing, 72.39- 

 82.55 (76.45); tail, 52.83-64.77 (56.18); exposed culmen, 10.41-10.92 

 (10.67); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 21.59-24.13 

 (22.86); middle toe, 16.26-17.27 (16.76).' 



Adidt female.— \A&x^g^ (skins), 134.62-148.59 (141.99); wing, 72.89- 

 82.55 (76.96); tail, 53.34^56.90 (54.86); exposed culmen, 10.67-11.18 

 (10.92); depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.62 (7.37); tarsus, 21.84-24.13 

 (22.86); middle toe, 16.00-17.02 (16.26).' 



Breeding on Sable Island (and other islands?), off Nova Scotia; 

 migrating southward along Atlantic coast as far as Georgia (Glynn 

 County). 



Centronyx bairdii (not Emheriza bairdii Audubon) Allen, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 513, 

 631 (Ipswich Beach, Massachusetts; crit. ). — Maynaed, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 

 554 (Ipswich Beach); Naturalists' Guide, 1870, 113, colored plate. — Brews- 

 ter, Am. Nat, vi, 1872, 307 (Ipswich, Massachusetts, Oct. 14, 15). 



[Centronyx'] bairdii CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 135, part. 



Passerculus princeps Maynaed, Am. Nat. , vi, 1872, 637 (Ipswich Beach, Massachu- 

 setts; coll. C. J. Maynard) ; Naturahsts' Guide, 2d ed., 1877, 112, colored plate; 

 Birds Eastern U.S.,pt.iv, 1878, 101, pi. 3.— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 158; 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 225; Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 696 (Massachusetts) ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iii, 1878, 3 (synonymy, etc. ). — Baied, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds,!, 1874, 540, pi. 25, fig. 2; iii, 1874, 513 (Long Island) .—Bre wee, 

 Proc. Bost. See. N. H.,xvii, 1875, 441 (Massachusetts). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, i, 1876, 52 (Point Lepreaux, New Brunswick, Apr. 11). — Mer- 

 eiam. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 52 (near New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 

 4) ; Trans. Conn. Acad., iv, 1877, 36 (coast Connecticut, Nov. ) ; Auk, i, 1884, 390 

 (Sable I., Nova Scotia, breeding; see Ridgway, Auk, i, 1884, 292). — Beown, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 27 (Lake Umbagog, New Hampshire, Oct. 9, 1 

 spec.).— Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 78 (Coney I., New York, 



' Seven specimens. 



