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Ammodmmiis nindacntnn Bbown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 98 (Scarboro 

 Marsh, etc., Maine, Oct., Nov.).— EiD(iWAY, Notn. X. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 201, part.— PuKDiEy Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 122 (Kenebecasis R., 

 near Hampton, New Brunswick, breeding). — Chamberlain, Auk, iv, 1887, 

 261 (above falls of St. Croix R., New Brunswick, autumn) .—Knight, Bull. 

 3, Univ. Maine, 1897, 97 (s. coast Maine, summer resid.) . 



Ammodramus caiidacutus nelsoni (not Ammodromus caudacutus Yar. nelsoni Allen) 

 Fisher, Auk, ii, 1885, 307, part (CrotonE., s. e. New York, Sept. 25 to Oct. 

 10). — Hensi-iaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 486 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 31 and 

 Oct. 7; Sing Sing, N. Y.). 



A-lmmodranids'] caudacutus nelsoni. Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 413, 

 part. 



Ammodramus caudacutus subvirgatus Dwight, Auk, iv, July, 1887, 233 (Hills- 

 borough, Albert Co., New Brunswick; coll. J. Dwight, jr. ); Auk, x, 1893, 11 

 (Prince Edward I. ) ; xiii, 1896, 273, 276, pi. 4, right-hand fig. (crit.) . — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 12; Check List, abridged 

 ed. 1889, no. 5496; 2d ed., 1895, no. 5496.— Brewster, Auk, vii, 1890, 212 

 (Frogmore, near Charleston, South Carolina, Mar. 19 to Apr. 20, Oct. 25 to 

 .30). — Sage, Auk, viii, 1891, 115 (Connecticut R. , near Portland, Connecticut, 

 Oct. 4-13).— Stone, Auk, x, 1893, 85 (Atlantic City, New Jersey, Oct. 2).— 

 Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed. 1896, 602.— Bartsch, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 93 (Yates Co., New York, Oct. 7).— Knight, Bull. 3, Univ. Maine, 1897, 98 

 (breeding s. w. to Sagadahoc Co., Maine). 



A.\_mmodram,us'] caudacutus subvirgatus Stone, Auk, x, 1893, 85 (Atlantic City, 

 New Jersey, Oct.). 



Ammodramus nehoni subvirgatus Norton, Proc. Portland Soc. N. H., ii, Mar. 15, 

 1897, 102 (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 118. 



AMMODRAMUS LECONTEII (Audubon). 

 IE OONTE'S SPARKOW. 



Bill very small (exposed culmen 8.38-10.16, averaging 9.14); broad 

 superciliary and malar stripes buff, and pileum with a conspicuous 

 median light-colored stripe; edge of wing white. 



Admits {sexes (dike). — Broad lateral stripes of pileum blackish, nar- 

 rowly streaked or squamated with paler, the narrower median stripe 

 buff anteriorl}', pale grayish or dull whitish posteriorly; hindneck 

 chestnut, the feathers margined with pale grayish; scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars blackish, mixed with chestnut, and broadly edged with pale 

 buff, pale grayish, or whitish; under parts buff' anteriorly and laterally 

 (deepest on chest, palest on throat), the abdominfil region white; sides 

 and flanks, rarely also the chest, streaked with blackish; no dusky 

 rictal streak, and usually no submalar streak. 



Yhung. — Much more buffy above than adults, the back with broad 

 streaks of black and narrower (lateral) streaks of light buff; hindneck 

 deeper buff (sometimes tinged with chestnut), streaked with blackish; 

 superciliary stripe and malar region much paler buff than in adults, 

 the former narrowly streaked with black; median crown-stripe entirely 

 buff. 



