27 2 Dwight on a Nexv Race of Sharp-tailed Sparrow. f July 



Genus Recurvirostra Linn. 

 Recurvirostra Lixn.eus, Sjst. Nat I, ioth ed. p. 151, 1758. 



Recurvirostra americana Gmel. 



Recurvirostra americana Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. p. Chjt, (1788). — Gosse, 

 Bds. Jam. p. 3S7 ( 1847).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 

 308 ( i860) (Cuba). — Gundl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 88 (Cuba). — ALBRECHT, 

 J. f. 0. [862. p. 206 (Jamaica). — March, Vy. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1864. p. 67 (Jamaica). — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 357 

 ( [866) ; ib. J. f. 0. 1875. p. 330 (Cuba) —A. & E. Newton, Handb. 

 Jamaica, p. 115 (1881).— CORY, List Bds. W. I. p. 26 (1885). 



Recorded from Cuba and Jamaica. 



( To be continued.) 



ANEW RACE OF THE SHARP-TAILED SPARROW 

 (AMMODRAMUS CA UDACUTUS). 



BY JONATHAN DWIGHT, JU. 



Several years ago I obtained in New Brunswick, near the 

 head ofthe Bay of Fundy, three Sparrows that I labelled Ani- 

 modramus caudacutus, as a matter of course. They lay un- 

 noticed in my collection until one day last summer, when I was 

 struck by their faded and faintly streaked appearance as com- 

 pared with New York specimens at the same season. My sus- 

 picions were aroused, and during the summer and fall, which I 

 was able to spend in the same locality, I obtained a series of 

 these birds showing so clearly all changes of plumage that I 

 decided to investigate as much other material as I could gather 

 with the help of kind friends. My thanks are due to Messrs. J. 

 A. Allen, Montague Chamberlain, H. W. Henshaw, Robert 

 Ridgwav, Geo. B. Sennett, and Dr. A. K. Fisher, for the large 

 series of Sharp-tailed Sparrow s now before me, — 114 specimens 

 in all. It confirms me in the belief that my birds represent a good 

 geographical race, which forms the connecting link between true 

 caudacutus and the inland race nelsoni, and it shows, moreover, 



