. Birds of North Carolina . a cream-lmtl line through the center of the blackish crown; nape rufous-brown, each feather with a small black central spot and an ashy border; l)ack black, the feathersmargined first by rufous, then and whitish; tail grayish brown, with a slight rufoustinge, darker along the shaft, the feathers narrow and sharply pointetl, tlie t)uter ones much theshortest; breast and sides tinged with butTv, and more or less streaked with black; belly , ; \V., ; T., ; B., .35. (Chap., Birds ojE. .V. A.) Range.—Circat Plains and more western prairi
. Birds of North Carolina . a cream-lmtl line through the center of the blackish crown; nape rufous-brown, each feather with a small black central spot and an ashy border; l)ack black, the feathersmargined first by rufous, then and whitish; tail grayish brown, with a slight rufoustinge, darker along the shaft, the feathers narrow and sharply pointetl, tlie t)uter ones much theshortest; breast and sides tinged with butTv, and more or less streaked with black; belly , ; \V., ; T., ; B., .35. (Chap., Birds ojE. .V. A.) Range.—Circat Plains and more western prairies, wintering on the Gulf coast, casually inwinter and the migrations to tlic South Atlantic States. Range in North Carolina.—So far, known only a straggler at Raleigh. Descriptive List 239 The only specimen of Lecontes Sparrow so far recorded from North Carolinawas taken by C. S. Brimlcy on the edge of a marsh near Raleigh, April 21, can be expected to occur only as an accidental migrant or a mnter Fia. 188. Lecontes Sparrow. 228. Passerherbulus caudacutus (Gmel.). Sharp-tailed sparrow. Description: Ads.—General oolor of tlie upperparts a brownish olive-green; crown olive-brown, with a blue-gray line fhrough its center; gray ear-coverts, inclosed by ochraceous-bufflines, one of which passes over the eye and one down the side of the throat; feathers of the backmargined with grayish and sometimes whitish; bend of the wing yellow; tail-feathers narrow andsharply pointed, the outer feathers much the shortest; breast and sides washed with bufty, palerin summer, and distinctly streaked with black; middle of the throat and belly white or , ; W., ; T., ; B., .50—(Dwight). (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) Range.—Salt-marshes of Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to North Carohna. Range in North Carolina.—Salt-marshes of coast; so far, only recorded from the Beaufortregion and northward.
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