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FRINGILLIN^. AMMODRAMUS. 
tapering to a fine point. Plumage soft and blended, with 
the filaments stifiish and disunited. No bristles. Wings 
short, convex, rounded, the second, third, and fourth quills 
longest, the first considerably shorter. Tail of moderate 
length, graduated, slender, of twelve narrow, acuminate 
feathers. No difference in the colours of the sexes. 
. 172. 1. Ammodramus maritimus, Wils. Grey Shore-Finch. 
— Sea-side Finch. 
Plate XCIII, Male and Female. 
Third and fourth quills longest, first and eighth equal ; tail gra- 
duated ; upper parts brownish-grey, tinged with olivaceous, two faint 
longitudinal bands of darker on the head ; the feathers on the fore 
part of the back brown in the centre ; margin of the wing at the flexure 
light yellow, smaller wing- coverts and outer webs of secondary coverts 
dull reddish-brown ; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with 
pale brownish-grey ; a yellow band from the base of the upper man- 
dible over the eye, fainter behind ; throat greyish-white, with a lon- 
gitudinal bluish-grey band on each side ; lower part of neck, fore part 
of breast, and sides, light bluish-grey, streaked with light olivaceous- 
brown ; middle of breast pale grey, abdomen white, lower tail-co- 
verts pale yellowish-brown, with a central dusky streak. 
Male, 8, 11. 
From Texas to Massachusetts along the shores of the Atlantic. 
Resident in the Southern States. Abundant, 
Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 68. 
Fringilla maritima, Bonap. Syn. p. 110. 
Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 505. 
Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 471. 
173. 2. Ammodramus Macgillivrayi, Aud. Macgillvray’s 
Shore-Finch. 
Plate CCCLV. Male and Female. 
Second, third, and fourth quills longest, first and seventh equal ; 
tail rounded. Upper parts dull olivaceous-grey, streaked with blackish- 
brown, the central parts of all the feathers being of the latter colour ; 
margin of the wing at the flexure yellowish- white ; all the feathers of 
the wings dusky brown, margined with pale olivaceous ,* tail-feathers 
blackish-brown, margined with olivaceous ; a yellowish-brown streak 
from the base of the upper mandible over the eye ; throat and fore 
neck greyish-white, with an indistinct dusky streak on each side ; 
breast and sides pale dull yellowish-grey marked with brownish-black 
