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(including superciliary stripe) and neck smoke gray or dull ash gray, 

 the latter streaked with chestnut or dark chestnut-brown; a narrow 

 chestnut or chestnut-brown postocular stripe; chin and throat very 

 pale dull grayish, or buffy graj'ish white, deepening on chest, sides, 

 and flanks into pale gra3dsh buffy, or buffy grayish, the flanks some- 

 times streaked with brown; a dusk}" submalar streak sometimes pres- 

 ent, but usually {() absent; maxilla dusk}', mandible paler; iris bi'own; 

 legs and feet very pale brownish buffy or dnll straw color. 



(Young not seen.) 



AduJf inah'.— Length (skins), 1.33. 35-15S. 7.5 (141.48); wing, 57.15- 

 62.23 (59.69); tail, 61.47-64.77 (62.99); exposed culmen, 10.92-12.70 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 5.84-7.37 (6.86); tarsus, IS. 54-20.32 

 (19.05); middle toe, 13.97-15.75 (14.99).' 



Adii/ffemaU— Length (skins), 120.65-137.16 (131.57); wing, 56.64- 

 58.42 (57.40); tail, 58.42-61.47 (59.94): exposed culmen, 11.43-12.19 

 (11.68); depth of 'bill at base, 6.35-6.86 (6.60); tarsus, 18.29-19.81 

 (19.05); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.73).' 



Southern Georgia (Savannah; Liberty County, etc.) and Florida; 

 breeding as far south as Tarpon Springs and Pinellas Peninsula. 



F.[ringiUa] ae«<u'rtZis Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 25 (Georgia). 



A.[mmodromus1 lestivaHs Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 347; Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, 

 ^ no. 7427. 



P.[ev/;aea] aestivalis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, April, 1851, 132, footnote. 



Peucaea aestivalis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 484, excl. synonymy, 

 part (Indian Springs, Savannah, and Liberty Co., Georgia); Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 370, part. 



Peucsea asstivdl is SchATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862,115, excl.syn., part (Georgia). — 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 279, excl. syn., part (e. Florida). — 

 CoUES, Check List, 1873, no. 170, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 251.— Baird, Brewer, 

 and RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 39, part, pi. 28, fig. 4. — JIayxard, 

 Birds E. N. Am., 1878, 125, part (chiefly n. and middle Florida). — Ridgway, 

 Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 226.— Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Cm. Club, viii, 1883, 

 39 (Georgia; deacr. nest and eggs) . — Brewster, Auk, ii, 1885, 106 (crit. ). — 

 American' Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 575. — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 709, part (Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, South 

 Carolina?; Jacksonville, Florida). — Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 323 (Tarpon 

 Springs and Pinellas Peninsula, s. w. Florida, resident). — Wayne, Auk, xii, 

 1895, 365 (Wacissa R., n. w. Florida, breeding). — Nehrling, Our Xativ6 

 Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 145, pi. 24, fig. 5. 



[Peucxa'] sestiirtlis Coues, Key, 1872, 140, part-. 



P. [aic«(i] lesti rails Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 373. — Bidgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 427. 



[Peucxa sestivalis'] var. xstivalls Bidgw.-vy, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 38. 



Fringilla sestiva Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 568. 



^Eleven specimens. ^Four specimen.s. 



