28 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Massachusetts.— Ipswich, December 4, 1868. Maynard, Am. Nat. III, December, 
1869, 554- 
Maine.— Cape Elizabeth, March 20, 1875. Brown, Rod and Gun, VI, May 8, 1875, 81. 
New Brunswick.— Point Lepreaux, April 11, 1876. Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 
Club, I, July, 1876, 52. 
Connecticut.— ‘South End,’ New Haven, November 4, 1875. Merriam, Bull. Nutt. 
Ornith. Club, I, July, 1876, 52. 
[? New Hampshire— Lake Umbagog, October 9, 1876. Brown, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 
Club, II, January, 1877, 27.] 
New York.— Coney Island, Long Island, December 20, 1876. Bailey, Bull. Nutt. 
Ornith. Club, II, July, 1877, 78. 
Nova Scotia.— Sable Island, summer of 1884. Merriam, Auk, I, October, 1884, 390. 
Delaware.— Rehoboth Beach, November 22, 1884. Dwight, Auk, II, January, 1885, 105. 
Rhode Island.— Point Judith, November 27, 1884. [Jencks,] Random Notes, II, 
March, 1885, 17. 
[? Texas.— Dallas, December ro, 1884. Sennett, Auk, III, January, 1886, 135.] 
Virginia.— Cobb’s Island, ‘common in winter.” Rives, Proc. Newport Nat. Hist. 
Soc., 1889-90, 73. 
Georgia— ‘ Jack’s Bank,’ Glynn County, January 8, 1890. Worthington, Auk, VII, 
April, 1890, 211. 
Two of these records are open to such grave doubt that it is worth our 
while to examine the evidence on which they rest. The first is the one for 
New Hampshire by Mr. Brown who writes: ‘*On the gth of October, 
1876, I met with one of these birds on a sandy point on the northwest shore 
of Lake Umbagog, in New Hampshire. I should hesitate to record the 
occurrence of this species in a locality so far removed from its known 
haunts, it not having been before observed so far in the interior, since, from 
the miss-fire of two cartridges in succession I failed to capture my bird, 
were I not perfectly acquainted with its almost unmistakable habits.” 
Unfortunately, its habits do of distinguish it from the Savanna Sparrow, 
which under certain conditions of light might easily be confounded with it. 
Besides, it confines itself so exclusively to the seacoast that its appearance 
so far inland under any circumstances would be highly exceptional. It is 
safer, therefore, to apply rigidly the too often slighted rule that the capture 
of a specimen, especially where there is room for doubt, shall be the 
accepted evidence of its occurrence, and thus exclude the sole record for 
the State. 
The species has been recorded as a bird of Texas by Mr. Sennett, as 
follows: ‘*I have in my collection an adult male Ammodramus princeps 
taken at Dallas, Texas, Dec. 10, 1884. I obtained it from Mr. Fred. T. 
Jencks of Providence, who writes me in regard to it as follows: ‘The 
