2.06 bulletunt 50, united states national museum. 



COTURNICULUS SAVANNARUM SAVANNARUM (Gmelin). 

 ANTILLEAN GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. 



AdulfH in suiamer (sexes althe). — Pileum blackish, narrowly streaked 

 with light gray or grayish bufly and divided medially by a distinct line 

 of pale grayish buff; rest of upper parts mixed grayish, pale buffy, 

 rusty brown and black, the last prevailing on back and scapulars, 

 where forming large, more or less coalesced central or median spots; 

 hindneck grayish, streaked with chestnut, the chestnut streaks some- 

 times black medially; feathers of rump streaked or spotted with rusty 

 brown, the streaks sometimes black basally; wings duskj^, with distinct 

 pale buffj' grayish edgings, the lesser coverts mostly yellowish olive, 

 passing into yellow on edge of wing; sides of head, including broad 

 superciliary stripe, dull buffy, paler and more grayish on lores, the 

 supraloral region yellowish; a dusky postocular streak; under parts 

 buffy, becoming white or nearly so, on lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts; maxilla dark brown, paler on tomium; mandible 

 pale brownish (more or less lilaceous or pinkish in life); iris brown; 

 legs and feet pale brownish yellow or flaxen. 



Adults in lointer. — Similar to summer plumage, but brighter colored, 

 with less black and more of chestnut on upper parts; the median 

 crown-stripe deeper buffy, the hindneck broadly streaked with chest- 

 nut, interscapulars distinctly edged with buff and gray, buff of under 

 parts deeper, that of chest sometimes indistinctly streaked with 

 chestnut. 



Young. — Pileum dusky with an indistinct median stripe of pale 

 gra3ash, and indistinctly streaked with the same, or with pale brownish; 

 hindneck streaked with dusky and pale buffy grayish; back andscap- 

 ulai-s dusky or dull blackish, the feathers distinctly margined with 

 dull buffy and pale grayish; middle and greater wing-coverts margined 

 terminally with dull buffy whitish; under parts dull buffj' whitish, the 

 chest distinctly streaked with dusky; sides of head more or less 

 streaked with dusky; no yellow over lores nor on edge of wing. 



Admit w«^('.— Length (skins), 106.68-110.49 (108.46); wing, -56.13- 

 57.15 (56.90); tail, 37.59-40.64 (39.62); exposed culmen, 10.67-11.68 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.37 (6.86); tarsus, 19.81-20.57 

 (20.07); middle toe, 14.73-15.75 (14.99).^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skin), 109.22; wing, 57.66; tail, 39.37; ex- 

 posed culmen, 10.92; depth of bill at base, 7.11; tarsus, 20.07; middle 

 toe, 15.24.^^ 



Jamaica and Porto Rico, resident; also, according to Hartert, islands 

 of Curapao and Bonaire, southern Caribbean Sea.' 



'Three specimens from Jamaiia. 



^ One specimen from Jamaica. 



' "A series of skins of this species [from Bonaire] agree best with specimens from 

 Jamaica, which are typical A. savannarum and can not be separated from them. 

 The wings of the Aruljan specimens measure 2.05 to 2.20 inches [52.07 to 55.88 mm.]; 

 tarsus, 1.7 [i. e. 0.70] inches [17.78 mm.]." (Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 327.) 



