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Grand Rapids, November 21. Ohio — Central Ohio, October 8. 

 Illinois — Chicago, October 21 (average of 6 years, October 3). Mis- 

 souri — St. Louis, October 23. Tennessee — Memphis, October 25. 

 Louisiana — Shreveport, October 19. Prince Edward Island — Glad- 

 stone, September 21. New Brunswick — Grand Man an, October 6. 

 Maine — Scarboro Marsh, November 15. New Hampshire — New 

 Hampton, October 22. Massachusetts — Swampscott, November 9. 

 Connecticut — New Haven, November 12. New York — Moriches 

 Inlet, November 24; Cayuga basin, October 29. New Jersey — 

 Elizabeth, October 28; Cape May, October 25. Pennsylvania — 

 State CoUege, November 2. Vu-ginia — Lexington, October 17. 



Egg dates. — Connecticut: 60 records, May 24 to July 14; 34 records, 

 June 8 to June 13. 



Maryland: 7 records. May 14 to August 21; 5 records. May 25 to 

 June 27. 



Massachusetts: 12 records, June 9 to July 2. 



New York: May 9 to August 4 (number of records not stated). 



Rhode Island: 10 records, June 11 to July 6. 



AMMOSPIZA CAUDACUTA DIVERSA (Bishop) 



Southern Sharp -tailed Sparrow 

 Contributed by Norman P. Hill 



Habits 



The southern sharp-tailed sparrow was described by Louis B. 

 Bishop in 1901, the type locality being Wanchese, Roanoke Island, 

 N.C. Its breeding range as now defined extends from Tuckerton, 

 N.J., south to Chincoteague Island, Va., and includes suitable 

 marshes within the estuary of Chesapeake Bay north to Anne Arundel 

 County on the west shore of Maryland and to Queen Anne County 

 on the east. Though the 1957 A.O.U. Check-List extends the breed- 

 ing range south to Pea Island, N.C, the marshes south of Chincoteague 

 Island, Va., and those in North Carolina have been vainly searched 

 for breeding colonies of this species by Montagna (1942a,b) and, 

 independently, by me. The specimen reported as this species taken 

 as a nestling at Pea Island, N.C, on which the Check-List range is 

 apparently based, proves actually to be a juvenile seaside sparrow 

 (Wetmore, 1944). 



The range of the southern sharp-tailed sparrow lies entirely to the 

 south of the area of Pleistocene glaciation. The marshes occupied 

 by this race are similar to those of the eastern sharp-tail. They are 

 salt or brackish, well-drained, and green with soft thick gi'ass usually 

 less than a foot tall. Again Spartina patens is the dominant plant, 

 but also associated are Spartina glabra, Distichlis spicata, Juncus 



