FRINGILLIN^. AMMODRAMUS. 
Ill 
streaks ; middle of the breast and abdomen g-reyish-white^ tinged with 
yellowish-brown ; lower tail-coverts pale yellowish-brown, with a 
central dusky streak. 
Male, 7|. 
Abundant in Texas and along the Gulf of Mexico. Rather rare m 
South Carolina, from which it migrates in autumn. 
Macgillivray’s Finch, Aud. Orn, Biog. v. ii. p, 285 ; v. iv. p. 394 ; v. v. p. 499. 
174. 3. Ammodramus caudacutus, Lath. Buff-breasted 
Shore-Finch. — Sharp-tailed Finch. 
Plate CXLIX. Male and Female. 
Second, third, and fourth quills longest, first and fifth equal ; tail 
graduated. Upper part of the head with a central bluish-grey streak, 
deep brown at the sides with the feathers black in the centre ; hind 
neck dull grey, tinged with brown ; back brown, tinged with grey, 
some of the feathers marked with black and edged with greyish- 
white ; quills dusky brown, edged with reddish-brown, the second- 
ary and smaller coverts with their outer webs chiefly of the latter 
colour ; tail-feathers dusky brown, margined with greyish-olive ; a 
broad band of light yellowish -red from the base of the upper mandible 
over the e^’^e, and extending beyond the middle of the neck, where it 
is broader ; ear-coverts grey ; a broad band of yellowish-red from the 
lower mandible down the neck ; throat whitish, with a line of dusky 
streaks on each side ; the lower part of the neck, a portion of the 
breast, the lower tail-coverts, and the sides, pale yellowish-red, streaked 
with dusky ; the rest of the lower parts white. 
Male, 5, 7i. 
Breeds from Texas along the coast to Massachusetts. Never in the 
interior. Resident in the Southern States. Very abundant. 
Sharp-tailed Finch, Fringilla caudacuta, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 70. 
Fringilla caudacuta, Bo nap. Syn. p. 110. 
Shore Finch, Fringilla littoralis, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 504. 
Sharp-tailed Finch, Fringilla caudacuta. Add. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 281 5 v. v. p. 499. 
175. 4. Ammodramus palustris, Wils. Marsh Shore-Finch. 
Swamp Sparrow. 
Plate LXIV. Male. 
Bill shorter than in the other species ; tail-feathers less acuminate ; 
upper part of head deep chestnut-red, streaked with black ; hind part 
and sides of the neck light bluish-grey, cheeks dusky brown ; a greyish- 
yellow streak over the eye ; upper parts of body yellowish-brown, 
streaked with brownish-black ; wing-coverts and secondaries broadly 
edged with yellowish-red, primaries with duller red ; tail similar ; 
throat greyish-white, with two small dusky streaks, the rest of the fore 
