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Chapman, The Seaside Sparrows. 
TAuk 
L Jan. 
breeding on the coast of Louisiana, the Corpus Christi bird is 
less closely related than to any other form of the group, except 
A. nigrescens. There is no evidence whatever of its intergradation 
with any of its congeners and consequently no reason for deny- 
ing it specific rank. 
Ammodramus maritimus et subsp. 
Having disposed of the two forms whose status is clearest we 
may now approach those whose relationships and distribution 
present certain apparent anomalies. Before discussing the 
questions involved in a study of these birds it will be well to 
first give briefly our recorded information concerning their 
distribution and the accepted views in regard to their relation- 
ships. 
Ammodramus maritimus ( Wils.) . 
In the second edition of the A. O. U. ‘ Check-List ’ the range 
of this species is given as “Salt marshes of the Atlantic Coast, 
from Connecticut southward to Georgia. Accidental in Massa- 
chusetts.” Recent records show the bird to be a regular summer 
resident in Rhode Island and as far east as Westport, Mass., 
just beyond the Rhode Island State line. 1 The locality “ Geor- 
gia,” given in the ‘ Check-List,’ is evidently based on Mr. William 
Brewster’s identification of the series of twelve breedmg birds 
taken by himself, in some instances with nests and eggs, at St. 
Mary’s, Georgia. 2 
In the second edition of his ‘Manual,’ Appendix, page 602, 
Mr. Ridgway gives the range of maritimus as “Massachusetts 
to northern Florida,” the latter locality being doubtless based on 
Lieut. Robinson’s breeding birds from St. Augustine and Matan- 
zas Inlet, which I have previously mentioned as included in the 
series loaned me by Mr. Ridgway. 
1 See Howe, Auk XIV, 1897, 219; Sturtevant, ibid. 322; Farley, ibid. 322. 
2 Auk, XII, 1890, 212. 
