ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES 123 
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A rare spring and autumn migrant, except in the Berkshires, 
where it is apparently not uncommon. 
May 5 to May 27 (June 6); September 23 to November 5. 
Amherst: ‘ Irregular migrant in May.’ © Berkshire: ‘‘ Common tran- 
Bristol County: ‘‘ Rare transient 
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sient visitant in the valley country. 
visitant.’"’ Brookline: “Rare migrant.’> Cambridge: Uncommon tran- 
sient visitant. Cohasset: “Rare in May; once in June.” Dedham: 
““Very rare.’ Essex County: “Veryrare.’’* Ipswich : “Several seen.’’ 
Springfield: “Rare spring and autumn visitor.’ Templeton: ‘ Rare 
migrant.” Wellesley: ‘ Scarce migrant.’ 
339. Chondestes grammacus (Say). Lark FINCH. 
Accidental from the west. The records are: Gloucester, one 
about 1845, according to S. Jillson;* (Vewdsonville, a female was 
taken November 25, 1877, by Mr. C. J. Maynard ;? A/agnolid, one 
taken August 27, 1879, by Mr. W. S. Townsend ;* /ramzngham, 
one captured April 29, 1882, by F. C. Browne. This bird was 
probably the same as one seen in the same place on April 6.* 
340. Ammodramus maritimus (Wils.). SEASIDE SPARROW. 
A rare local summer resident along the coast. It was found 
breeding at Westport in 1896, and it is said to be not rare there 
as a summer resident. On February g, 1898, Messrs. H. B. 
Bigelow and G. C. Shattuck took one on the salt marshes of 
Sandy Neck, West Barnstable: at the time the bird was supposed 
to be but an accidental straggler,® but on February 9, rgor, Mr. 
Howe, in company with the latter of the above gentlemen, visited 
the Sandy Neck marshes, and on the edge of the dunes at nearly 
exactly the same point, in a somewhat restricted portion of the 
marshes, flushed and killed another bird, which was a male. The 
taking of two specimens on the same marsh would, beside the 
seeing of another [?] by Mr. Howe on February 6, rgo1, point 
to the probability of the species breeding there. It has also 
1 Putnam ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. I, 1856, p. 224. 
2 Purdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. III, No. 1, Jan., 1878, p. 44. 
3 Townsend ; zézd., Vol. V, No. 1, Jan., 1880, p. 53. 
4 Browne; zbzd., Vol. VIII, No. 3, July, 1883, pp. 181, 182. 
> Farley; Auk, Vol. XIV, No. 3, July, 1807, p. 322. 
®§ Howe; Auk, Vol. XV, No. 2, Apr., 1898, p. 189. 
