126 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT, HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Eggs. 3-5 ; early in June. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. June i, 1905, five eggs (J. 

 C. A. M. and L. B. B.). Latest record. Aug, 6, 1879, three eggs 

 (C. M. Jones).! 



This species frequents hillside meadows and swamps partially 

 overgrown with shrubbery. 



Passerherbulus caudacutus (Gmelin). Sharp-tailed Spar- 

 row. 



An abundant summer resident of the salt marshes from May 

 to October, often lingering into December and probably occa- 

 sionally wintering. 



Earliest record. New Haven, May 4, 1887, April 30, 1889 

 (L. B. W.). 



Latest record. New Haven, Nov. 10, 1883, Nov. 12, 1892 

 (H. W. F.). 



Winter records. Dec. 2, 1882, Dec. 31, 1885, Dec. 12, 1889, 

 Guilford (L. B. B.). 



Nest. In the salt grass, frequently under a little drift material. 



Eggs. 3-7, usually 4 or 5 ; the last of May. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. May 21, 1890, nest with 

 eggs (L. B. W.). Latest record. June 21, 1882, three eggs 

 (L. B. B.). A set of 7 eggs taken, New Haven, May 31, 1897 

 (L. B. B.). 



Partial albino records, Dec. 31, 1885, Guilford (L. B, B.) ; 

 Oct. 12, 1900, Nov. 7, 1903, West Haven (L. B. B.) ; Oct. 24, 

 1904 (L. B. B.), Oct. 8, 1909 (L. C. S.), Quinnipiac Marshes, 

 North Haven; Oct. 25, 1905 (E. S. W.), Oct. 14, 27, 1905 (L. 

 B. B.), New Haven. 



Another anomaly. A few of the feathers of the juvenal 

 plumage on the upper parts remained adherent to the tips of the 

 feathers of the first winter plumage, as the natal down usually 

 does to the juvenal, in specimens of this species taken in West 

 Haven, Oct. 12, 1900, Oct. 18, 1901, and Oct. 21, 1903 (L. B. B.). 



A female hybrid between this species and the Seaside Spar- 

 row (Passerherbulus niaritiinus marititnns) was collected near 

 New Haven, May i, 1890, by H. W. F. (now in coll. of 

 Brewster) , 



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