BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 199 



Passeradua anthinus (not Bonaparte) (?) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 112 



(California). — Coues, Ibis, 1866, 268, in text (San Pedro, s. California; 



habits). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 183, part (San Diego, California). — Ridq- 



WAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 194, part.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., V, 1883, 528 (San Quentin Bay, Lower California, May 2-11; resident?). 

 l^Passerculus savanna. ] Var. anthinus Coues, Kej', 1872, 136, part. 

 Passerculus savanna . . . var. anthinus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 1.59a, part.. — 



Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 240 (Santa Barbara, s. 



California, breeding; habits; measurements). 

 Passerculus savanna, var. anthinus Baird, Brewer, and Ridqway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 539, part. 

 ^Passerculus savannal b. anthinus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 128, part. 

 Passerculus savanna anthinus Coues, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 9 (Todos 



Santos I., Lower California). 

 Passerculus sandvicensis anthinus Coues, Check List, 2d ed. , 1882, no. 228. 

 P.^asserculusl s-landmcensisl anthinus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 363, 



part. 

 Passerculus alaudinus (not Bonaparte) Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii), 1874, 512 (Santa Barbara, California, breeding). 

 Passerculus beldingi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, no. 33, Jan. 19, 1885, 



516 (San Diego, California, U. S.Nat. Mus.). 

 Ammodramus beldingi 'RjBGv; AY, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.,viii, no. 23, Sept. 2, 1885, 



354. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 543. — Ever- 



mann, Auk, iii, 1886, 182 (Ventura Co., California, resident). — Gault, Bull. 



Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 58 (San Diego Co., California; habits; descr. 



nest and eggs, etc.). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 85. — Grin- 



NELL, Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 36 (Los Angeles Co., California, 



resident in salt marshes). 

 A.[mmodramus} beldingi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 409. 

 Passerculus sandwichensis (not Emberiza sandwichensis Gmelin) Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 674, part. 



PASSERCULUS ROSTRATUS ROSTRATUS (Cassin). 

 lARGE-BIILED SPARROW. 



Culmen regularly curved from base, without depression in middle 

 portion, the bill more swollen than in J°. sa7idwiche7isis and allies; 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by less than length of exposed culmen 

 (the latter 10. 67 mm. or more) ; upper parts not conspicuously streaked, 

 except sometimes on back. 



Adults {sexes cdike). — Above light broccoli brown, tinged with gray, 

 the feathers of pileum and back with more or less distinct mesial streaks 

 of darker; outer webs of secondaries and greater wing-coverts more 

 wood brown or cinnamon, the tertials with conspicuous central areas of 

 dusky; a broad but rather indistinct superciliary stripe of pale buffy 

 grayish, becoming nearly white anteriorly; auricular region brown, 

 mixed with pale buffy grayish centrally; an indistinct dull whitish 

 suborbital space; broad malar stripe pale buff or buffy whitish; under 

 parts buffy white, the flanks tinged with brownish buffy, and the 

 chest, sides of throat, sides, and flanks streaked with wood brown or 

 cinnamon, these brown streaks usually inclosing a narrower median 



