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Ammodramus lecontei Brewstek, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 410 (near Charleston, South 

 Carolina, Jan. 26).— Loomis, Auk, iii, 1886, 486 (Chester Co., South Carolina, 

 common in winter). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 596 (Mani- 

 toba, summer resid.; habits, song, etc.). — Brimley, Auk, xi, 1894, 332 

 (Raleigh, North Carolina, Apr. 21). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 89. 



Ammodromus lecontei Sharpe, Oat. Birds. Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 695. 



{Coturniculiis] lecontii Bonaparte, Consp. Av.,i, 1850, 481. 



Coturniculus lecontii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 452; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 340.--Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. andGeog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 587 

 (Turtle Mt. to Souris R., North Dakota; habits) ; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 237. — Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 23 (Manitoba; habits; song). — Loomis, Auk, ii, 

 1885, 190 (Chester Co., South Carolina, winter resid. ; habits). 



\_Coturniculii,s] lecontei Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 137. 



Clottimiculus] lecontii CouBS, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 366. 



Coturniculus lecontei Gojj'es, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 748 (biography, etc.) ; Check List, 

 1873, no. 164; Birds N. W., 1874, 134.— Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 552, pi. 25, fig. 6; iii, 1874, 513 (n. North Dakota; 

 crit. ; full descriptions). — Snow, Obs. Nature, iii, 1876 (Lawrence, Kansas, 

 Oct. 4).— Nelson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 40 (Riverdale, n. e. Illinois, 

 May 13); \-, 1880, 51 (do.).— Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 26 

 (Storey Co., centr. Iowa, Oct. 10, abundant). — Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 8 (Ooosada, Alabama, Feb., Mar.). — Roberts, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 152 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20 to Aug. 15).— 

 WoRTHEN, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 32 (Warsaw,. Illinois, breeding?).— 

 Looms, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 54 (Chester Co., South Carolina, 

 Nov. 11 to Dec. 10, abundant.). — Ogilby, Sclent. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, 

 iii, 1882, [33] (Navarro Co., Texas, Nov. to Apr.). — Brewsteb, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 121 (Rosewood, Gulf Hammock, Florida, Nov.; very 

 abundant). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 200; Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, viii, 1883, 58 (Richland Co., s. e. Illinois, Oct. 27, 28, very abundant) .— 

 Agersbokg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South Dakota, breeding). — Widmann, 

 Auk, ii, 1885,. 381 (St. Louis, Missouri, Apr. 1). 



AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII HENSLOWII (Audubon). 

 HENSIOWS SPAKROW. 



Tail not longer than wing, graduated, the graduation decidedly less 

 than length of exposed culmen, the lateral rectrices much shorter than 

 middle pair (difference betvs^een tips of longest and shortest rectrices 

 much greater than length of bill from nostril); bill stout, its depth at 

 base nearly or quite equal to length from nostril; a blackish rictal and 

 (usually) a blackish submalar streak. 



Adults {sexes alike).- — Head and neck buffy olive, the pileum heavily 

 streaked, except along median line, with black, the hindneck more nar- 

 rowly streaked; back and scapulars chestnut, the feathers black cen- 

 trally and narrowly edged or margined with whitish; wings mainly 

 chestnut; blackish postocular, rictal, and submalar streaks (the last 

 sometimes indistinct); chin and throat pale buff or buffy whitish; chest, 

 sides, and flanks deeper buffy, streaked with blackish ; abdomen whitish. 



