DESCRIPIIONS OF THREE NEW BIRDS FROM THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. By Edgar A. Mearns, Major and Surgeon, United States Army. Two birds which I collected in Florida durint,^ the winter and spring of 1901 prove to ))c new to science. These are here described, together with a new nuthatch from Arizona. COTURNICULUS SAVANNARUM FLORIDANUS, new subspecies. FLORIDA GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. Type.—^o. 176981, U.S.N.M. collection. Adult male, taken April 23, 1901, on the Kissimniee Prairie, 7 miles east of Alligator Blutf, Osceola Count}', Florida, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 12531. Charactd's. — Similar to Coturniciilus savannarum jmsserimts (Wil-son), but smaller, with larger bill, longer tarsus, and much darker coloration above, paler below; chestnut of upper surfaces much reduced in amount, and replaced by black; lateral dark areas of crown almost f^olid black; spotting of nape and scapulars almost black; inter-scapular region nuich blacker than in Coturuieulun savannarum jJCUi-Measurements of type {adult male). — Length, 132 mm. ; alar expanse, 210; wing, 63; tail, 49; chord of culmen, 12; tarsus, 21; middle toe with claw, 18. See table for comparative measurements (p. 917). Geographic range. — The Florida grasshopper sparrow breeds com-monly on the prairies of the Kissinunce Vallev, Florida, from Kissim-iMce City south to Alligator Bluti", and east to the headwaters of the St. Johns River, north of Lake Okeechobee. I found it especially luuuerouson the Kissimmee Prairie, where young of the 3a^arwere on wing as early as April 21, 1901. Mr. W. E. D. Scott seems to have found this form in the Caloo.sahatchie region of Florida/ and perhaps »The Auk, IX, July, 1894, p. 23. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXiV— No. 1274. 915
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