30 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
point to its regular migratory appearance along the Atlantic coast of 
New England in considerable numbers.” Dr. Coues in the same year 
contributed an important paper, containing the bibliography and synonymy 
of the species to date, as well as that of Baird’s Sparrow, with a colored 
plate of the latter. The year 1878 also marked the appearance of the 
part of Mr. Maynard’s quarto work containing a wretched colored plate 
of ‘ Passerculus princeps’ and a complete account of the species, in many 
respects the best that has ever been published. 
In the following year appeared Mr. Jeffries’s sketch of the bird as 
observed at Swampscott, Mass., chiefly during the autumn of 1878. It is 
an important contribution, although perhaps a little too dogmatic in some 
of its statements which are not entirely borne out by the facts. An argu- 
ment against the specific distinctness of przmceps from savanna is pre- 
sented. Unfortunately, however, the measurements given do not show 
proper cognizance of sex in making comparisons, nor is it conclusively 
proved that intermediate specimens were found. As a matter of fact the 
female princeps is of the size of the male savanna, while the male prznceps 
is considerably larger. In 1881 Mr. Stearns’s work on New England 
birds, edited by Dr. Coues, was published, in which may be found a good 
review of the bird’s history. 
By 1882, the Ipswich Sparrow began to be considered a common 
species in New England, and Mr. N. C. Brown thus wrote of it: ‘* The 
once prized Ipswich Sparrow (Passerculus princeps) must now take its 
place among the common autumnal migrants of southern Maine, though 
restricted, so far as I am aware, to the seacoast. In the spring, however, 
itis uncommon if not rare. Since the capture of the first Maine specimen* 
March 20, 1875, I have seen but two other spring specimens. These I 
found upon Old Orchard Beach, March 28, 1882, and one of them is now 
in my collection. In their autumnal migration the birds reach Cumber- 
land County about Oct. 13, remaining at least until Nov. 6, later than 
which I have never looked for them. Upon almost any day between 
these dates the collector may find a dozen or more individuals along the 
sandy shore between Scarborough Beach and the Saco River.” (Bull. 
N. O. C. VII, 190.) In 1883 Mr. M. Chamberlain recorded a flock of 
about twenty (a number far exceeding anything ever recorded elsewhere) 
seen on April 11, near St. John, N. B. In the same year Mr. H. K. 
- Job wrote that ‘* Ipswich Sparrows can at last be ranked almost as common 
birds upon our seacoast in the late fall. Last year I saw them first on 
October 28, in Boston Harbor, and for about a month found more speci- 
«%* See Rod and Gun, Vol. VI, p. 65 [=p. 81].” 
