Similar to the last but brighter colored and not streaked below. In the Mississippi Valley north to Manitoba. 549a. Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow (sub-virgatus), Atlantic coast, breeding from Maine to New Brunswick.
SEASIDE SPARROW
550. Passerherbulus maritimus. 6 inches
Yellow spot before the eye. General plumage above grayish green with no black markings. All the habits of the Seaside Sparrows are precisely like those of the [Sharp-tailed Sparrows]. The nests and eggs are indistinguishable and are often found in the same marshes.
Sub-Species.—550a. Scott Seaside Sparrow (peninsulæ), slightly smaller and with the back marked with black and brownish green; South Atlantic coast. 550b. Texas Seaside Sparrow (sennetti), greener above than No. 550; coast of Texas. 550c. Fisher Seaside Sparrow (fisheri), darker above than scotti and with the breast and sides heavily washed with rusty and streaked with black; coast of Louisiana. 550d. Macgillivray Seaside Sparrow (macgillivrayii), coast of South Carolina.
DUSKY SEASIDE SPARROW
551. Passerherbulus nigrescens. 6 inches
Darkest of the Seaside Sparrows. Found only in marshes at head of Indian River, Florida.
