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Chapman, The Seaside Sparrows. 
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ciably darker than comparable Long Island birds and apparently 
indicates an approach to the peninsula type, as it is represented 
on the Atlantic coast by birds similar to the ten specimens first 
mentioned. To this intermediate, South Atlantic form of mariti- 
mus I refer with some confidence Brewster’s breeding birds from St. 
Mary’s, Georgia, and Robinson’s breeding birds from the vicinity 
of St. Augustine and Matanzas Inlet, Florida. These birds, I am 
aware, have been referred to true maritimus and their plumage is 
in such worn condition that it is true they closely resemble, at 
first sight, Long Island specimens of that species. Carefully 
compared, however, with equally worn Long Island birds, they 
are grayer and more streaked below, while the lateral stripes of 
the crown, areas which seem least to show abrasion, are darker 
than in maritimus , being raw-umber as in peninsula , agreeing in 
fact, considering their abrasion, very closely in the color of this 
region with the ten specimens which I have spoken of as inter- 
mediate between maritimus and peninsula . 
Accepting this identification, what shall we call this dark 
representative of Ammodra 7 >ms maritimus which apparently is a 
permanent resident on the Atlantic coast from at least St. Augus- 
tine to Charleston ? Individually they have for the most part 
been identified as peninsula: , and while they have longer bills and 
are less green above and less heavily streaked below than true 
peninsula , they are so much nearer to this form than to maritimus, 
that I should prefer to refer them to the former rather than to 
the latter, or rather than to accept the alternative of giving them 
a name of their own. 
This leaves us with six specimens of the South Carolina and 
Georgia series which can be referred to neither maritimus nor 
peninsula. Three of these birds are in the collection of the 
United States National Museum (Nos. 159387, 2 , Oct. 24, 1893 ; 
No. 159388, 2 , Oct. 27, 1893; No. 159657, 2 , Oct. 23, 1895, 
all taken at Mount Pleasant, So. Car.), and three are in Mr. 
Brewster’s collection (No. 19047, 2 , Dec. 3, 1887, Sapelo Is., 
Ga.; No. 45753 ) S, Nov. 27, 1894 and No. 47656, 2 , April 17, 
1897, Mount Pleasant, So. Car.). In the coloration of the upper 
parts they resemble the dark, west Gulf coast bird, but the 
black of the feathers of the upper parts is margined with olive 
