CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 475 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two eggs taken at Long Lake, Manitoba, in June, 1894, by Mr, 
W. Raine. 
549-la. Acadian Sharp-tailed Finch. 
Ammodramus nelsoni subvirgatus (DwicutT) Norton. 1897. 
Fairly common about the salt marshes at the mouths of the 
streams emptying into Minas Basin, King’s Co., N.S., from June 
to October. (#7. Tufts.) Possibly occurs in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) 
Several specimens taken in the vicinity of Hampton, N.B. 
(Chamberlain.) A nest of this [species was taken near Baddeck, 
Cape Breton Island, July, 26th, 1898 ; this species was not rare 
along the shore of the bay east of Baddeck. (Macoun.) A few birds 
in the salt marsh at Tignish, Prince Edward Island were the only 
ones I could discover, although I searched in many other locali- 
ties. (Dwight.) Taken at St. Denis de Kamouraska, south shore 
of St. Lawrence, eastern Quebec ; breeding in some numbers. 
(Dionne.) A casual visitor at Ottawa, Ont. One shot in 1882, 
identified by Dr. Coues. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
This form is peculiar to the fresh and salt water marshes of the 
Maritime Provinces of Canada, especially those bordering on the 
Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Strangely enough 
it has never been taken in Nova Scotia, although it undoubtedly 
occurs there, for] have observed it within two or three miles of 
the boundary line when rambling over the meadows of the Petit- 
codiac River in New Brunswick, not far from the type locality. 
Since my discovery of the birds about ten years ago Ihave found 
them breeding at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, where they were 
recorded as caudacutus long before subvirgatus was separated by 
Brewster, at Bathurst, N.B., and at Riviére du Loup, Quebec, on 
the south shore of the St. Lawrence. They have also been found 
a few miles west of the last named place at Kamouraska by 
Dionne. West of this I have not found them, neither at L’Islet 
nor on the marshes between the city of Quebec and Ste. Anne de 
Beaupré. Consequently there appears to be a wide gap between 
the headquarters of this form and those of ne/sont,—over one 
thousand miles. (Dzwzght in The Auk, Vol. XIII., p. 276.) 
This species is tolerably commen on low islands in the St. John 
River, in York Co., N.B. The spring migrants arrive in April, 
the first observed in 1903 was April 22nd, a week earlier than the 
