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Frinc/illa macgillu-mii (not of Audubon, 1834) Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 394, 



part (coast of Louisiana and Texas) ; v, 1839, 499, part. 

 Ammodraniun macgilliiiuli Bosapautb, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32, part. — 



Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 110, part: Birds Am., oct. ed.,iii, 1841, 106, part 



(mouths of the JMississippi; coast of Texas). 

 [Ammodromus} macgillivrai/i Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 482, part. 

 Ammodramim maritimns maegiUivrai/i Kidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 



602.— Ambeican Oknithologists' Union, Auk, xiv, 1897, 121 (Check List no. 



550c). 

 Ammodramus maritimus peninsida; (part) Allen, Auk, v, July, 1888, 284 (Grand 



Isle, Louisiana, June) . — American Ornithologists' Union, Supplement to 



Check List, 1889, 13, part; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, 550a, part (Grand 



Isle, Louisiana) ; 2d ed. , 1895, no. 550n. 

 Ammodramus maritimus peninsulie? Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, 1891, 



324 (near Corpus Christi, Texas, Mar. 25; crit.) . 

 Ammodramus maritimus fisheri Chapman, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 10, pi. 1, upper fig., 



(Grand Isle, Louisiana; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — American Ornithologists' Union 



Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 118 (no. 550c). 



AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS SENNETTI Allen. 

 TEXAS SEASIDE SPARROW, 



Smaller, paler, and much more buffy than A. m. maritimvs, with the 

 scapulars and interscapulars distinctly darker than the general color of 

 the upper parts, relieved by broad edgings of pale grayish or buffy, 

 the pileum more or less streaked laterally with blackish, the auric- 

 ular region surrounded above, behind, and below by buff, a distinct 

 blackish post-auricular streak, and the chest distinctly buffy, broadly 

 but not sharply streaked with light gray or olive-gray. Young much 

 grayer above than that of A. m. viacgillivraii, but quite as distinctly 

 and broadly streaked with black, the under parts much more nearly 

 white, without distinct streaks on median portion of chest. ^ 



Adult 7««^e.— Length (skins), 132.08-139.70 (138.18); wing, 58.42- 

 61.47 (60.20); tail, 48.77-57.66 (54.61); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.46 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.11 (6.60); tarsus, 20.83-22.86 

 (22.35); middle toe, 15.75-17.27 (16.51).- 



AihiUfimale.—ljQngih (skins), 125.73-137.16 (134.87); wing, 54.61- 

 58.42 (56.13); tail, 50.80-54.61 (52.07); exposed culmen, 12.45-13.21 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 5.84-6.60 (6.10); tarsus, 21.08-22.86 

 (22.10); middle toe, 15.49-17.27 (16.26).' 



Coast of Texas (Galveston, Rockport, Tally's Island, Corpus Christi, 

 Nueces Bay, etc.). 



Ammodramus maritimus {not Pringilla maritimaWilaon) Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 andGeog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 17 (Galveston, Texas). 



^ This last character may not be constant, only two young birds having been exam- 

 ined. 

 ^ Eight specimens. 

 ' Nine specimens. 



