BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—AMMODROMUS CAUDACUTUS. 
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Under mandible yellowish ; a superciliary and maxillary stripe light chestnut, the latter 
bordered below by black ; feathers of back sharply edged with yellowish ; breast and sides tinged 
with brownish yellow with very distinct streaks.. —.. A. caudacutus. 
Back with distinct dusky streaks, but without well defined light edges; beneath white ; sides 
of neck and body, and across the breast, with black streaks ; maxillary stripe white ; wing 
coverts orange rufous, and no yellow on the edge of the wing. A. samuelis. 
Comparative measurements of species. 
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Species. 
Locality. 
Sex. 
Length. 
Stretch of 
wings. 
7111 
609 
Ammodramus maritimus... 
Ammodrainus caudacutus.. 
Philadelphia. ...... 
Cape May, N. J.... 
<? 
5.74 
4.94 
7098 
do. 
5553 
Ainmodramus samuelis 
A 
5.30 
5.50 
5.08 
6.75 
A 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe. 
Its claw 
alone. 
Hind toe 
and claw. 
Hind toe 
alone. 
Bill above. 
Along gape. 
Specimen 
measured. 
2.47 
2.55 
0.90 
0 90 
0.20 
0.66 
0 30 
0.57 
0.60 
Skin. 
2.30 
2.07 
0.80 
0.79 
0.19 
0.58 
0.26 
0.50 
0.56 
Skin. 
2.42 
2 50 
2.56 
0.82 
0.76 
0.20 
0.58 
0.26 
0.50 
0.54 
Skin. 
2.20 
2.50 
0.76 
0.74 
0.18 
0.52 
0.25 
0.51 
0.52 
Skin. 
AMMODROMUS CAUDACUTUS, Swain son. 
Sharp-tailed Fiuch. 
Oriolus caudacutus, Gmelin, I, 1788, 394.— Latham, Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 18G. (Not Fringilla caudacuta, Lath.) 
Fringilla caudacuta, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 70 ; pi. xxxiv, f. 3 .—Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 281 : V, 499 ; pi. 
149. 
Fringilla (Spiza) caudacuta, Bon. Syn. 1828, 110. 
Passerina caudacuta, Vieillot. 
Jbnmodromus caudacutus, Swainson, Birds, II, 1837, 289.— Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 111.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 
108 ; pi. 174.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 482. 
Fringilla littoralis, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 504. (2d ed. 1840, 590.) 
Sharp-tailed oriole, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 261. New York. 
Sp. Ch. —Upper parts brownish olivaceous. Head brownish, streaked with black on the sides, and a broad central stripe of 
ashy. Bach blotched with darker. A broad superciliary and maxillary stripe, and a band across the upper breast buff yellow. 
The sides of the throat with a brown stripe ; the upper part of the breast, and the sides of the body streaked with black ; rest 
of under parts white. Edge of wing yellowish white. Length, 5 inches ; wing, 2.30. 
Hab. —Atlantic coast of the United States. 
The young is of a more yellowish tinge above and below ; the streaks on the back more 
conspicuous ; the scapular feathers without the whitish edging. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
1954 
o 
Ravner S. Long Island .. _ 
Aug. 4, 1831. 
S. F. Baird. 
496 
New York_ 
John (1 Bell 
609 
s 
Cape May, N. J.. 
June —, 1840_ 
.do. 
