Description of a New Sharp - Tailed Sparrow from Cal - Ifornia

SuBSr. ciiAR: Similar to A. cautlaeutKH neJfioni^ but bill very much more s]«Mi(li'r, back more liea\'ily marked with black, butl" of anterior and lateral uiulcr parts more creamy, and clie.st less distinctly' streaked. Adult (No. 120310, Mili)itas, Santa Clara County, California, May 6, 1S91; KoUo H. Beck): Pileum deep bistre-brown, darker, or mixed witU blackish laterally, and divided loiij,ntndinally by a rather broad though indistinct dusky grayish median stripe; hind neck mixed tawnybrown and lii;ht grayish; interscapulars black, mixed with tawny olive brown (the last predominating along the median line of the back), the feathers, es])e('ially those toward the scapulars, broadly edged with grayish white, tinged, especially on middle of back, with buffy; scapulars dull tawny-brown, each with a central or median elongated spot of blackish; greater wing-coverts with outer surface mainly tawny-brown, paler at tips, the subtermiual portion with a dusky, ill-delined, mostly concealed, spot; tertials black centrally, margined (broadly on outer webs) with tawny-brown, fa<ling to whitish on outer web of tirst and terminal i)oition of outer web of second feather. Lower l)ack and rump light grayish tawny or Isabella color, rather indistijictly streaked with dusky; upper tail-coverts similar but more butl'y, with dusky streaks more distinct. Tail-feathers light grayish brown, edged with a more bulVy hue (the two outermost with pale buffy grayish), and marked with a median streak of dusky. Sides of head, including a broad superciliary stripe, tawny ochraceous, interrupted by a grayish olive auricular patch; sides of neck, immediately behind the latter with a small blacUsh blotch. Chin, throat, chest, sides. Hanks, and under tail coverts bull", deei)est on chest, which, with sides and Hanks, are streaked with l)rown-