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Adult wafe.— Length (skins), 105.41-120.65 (113.54); wing, 19.28- 

 53.85 (51.56); tail, 15.97-52.07 (19.02); exposed culmen, 8.38-10.16 

 (9.14); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.59 (5.33); tarsus, 17.78-18.80 

 (18.29); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.22).' 



Adult female.— Li(iv,^\\x (skins), 110.49-127.00 (117.35); wing, 49.02- 

 53.34 (51.31); tail, 46.48-55.88 (49.78); exposed culmen, 8.38-9.91 

 (9.14); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.33 (5.20); tarsus, 17.53-18.80 

 (18.03); middle toe, 12.70-15.24 (14.22).' 



Prairie marshes of Mississippi Valley and central British Provinces, 

 breeding from Minnesota (northern and western Illinois ?), South 

 Dakota, etc., to Assiniboia and Manitoba (Carberry, Raeburn, etc.); 

 in winter migrating south to Gulf States (Texas to Florida), and to 

 coast of South Carolina, occasionally to North Carolina. 



\Ftmgilla\ caudacuta (not Oriolus caudacutus Gmelin) Latham, Index Orn., i, 

 1790, 459 (interior of Georgia; good and exclusively pertinent description). 



FringiUa caudacuta Nuttall, Man. Orn. TJ. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 505; 2d ed., 

 i, 1840, 591. 



Emberiza le conteii Audubon, Birds Am., oct. ed., vii, 1843, 338, pi. 488 (prairies 

 of Upper Missouri River; type lost). 



Emberiza lecontei Baied, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 (Fort 

 Union) . 



E.lmberiza'] le contei Maximil*ian, Journ. fiir Orli. , vi, 1858, 340 (Upper Missouri). 



A. [mmodromus] le conteii Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, June, 1849, 374. 



A.[vim,odromus] lecontei Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 106 (Riverdale, 

 n. e. Illinois, May 13 and 21). 



Ammodromus leconteii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 548. — Allen, Auk, iii, 1886, 489 (specimen from Upper Missouri R., in 

 Maximilian coll.. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). — Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 X, 1888, 674 (San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 21).— Cooke, BirdMigr. Miss. Val., 

 1888, 191 (breeding in Dakota, Minnesota, and .Assiniboine Valley, possibly 

 in n. Illinois; localities, dates, etc.). — Poling, Auk, vii, 1890, 241 (Adams 

 Co., w. Illinois, abundant migrant). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 447 

 (migrant, a few wintering in s. Kansas). — Butler, Proc. Indiana Ac. Sci., 

 1891 (1892), 166 (White Water Valley, n. w. Indiana, Apr., 1887 and 1889); 

 1895, 167 (Morgan Park, Cook Co., Illinois, 6 specs. Apr., 1895); 1897, 945 

 (Lake Co., Indiana, Apr. 15; Brookville, Mar. 12; Lebanon, Mar. 30). — 

 Hatch, Birds Minnesota, 1892, 315 (habits, etc.).— Wayne, Auk, xi, 1894, 

 256 (near Charleston, South Carolina, Dec. to Feb., abundant); xii, 1895, 

 365 (WacissaR., n. w. Florida). — Singley, Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas, 1894, 

 372 (Corpus Christi).— Ames, Auk, xiv, 1897,411 (Toronto, Ontario, May 5, 

 1897) .—Merrill, Auk, xv, 1898, 16 (Fort Sherman, n. w. Idaho, Sept. 28).— 

 Allison, Auk, xyi, 1899, 268 (Avery's I., Louisiana, Feb. ; Amite Co., Missis- 

 sippi, Nov. 15). — HoLSTBiN, Auk, xvi, 1899, 356 (Lexington, Kentucky, Apr. 

 15 and July 16). 



Avimodramus lecontei Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 323 (Corpus 

 Christi, Texas, Apr.). 



A.^mmodramus] leconteii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 412. 



Ammodramus lecontii Fuertes, Auk, xv, 1898, 188 (Ithaca, New York, Oct. 11, 

 1897). 



' Ten specimens. 

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