Vol.XIX-] General Notes. 20^ 



1902 J ^ 



remained to winter with the Snow Buntings and Horned Larks. — Glover 

 M. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Savana Sparrow Wintering in Massachusetts. — On January iS, 

 1902, with Mr. Louis Agassiz Shaw, I took, a male Passerculus sandwtch- 

 etisis savamia at Ipswich, Mass. The bird was entirely alone when shot, 

 in the belt of beach grass which separates the dunes from the beach. 

 This is the third wintering record for the State, it having been previously 

 recorded from Sandwich and Longmeadow. — Reginald Heber Howe, 

 Jr., Longwood., Mass. 



The Ipswich Sparrow (Ammodramus friyicefs) on the Coast of South 



Carolina.— It is with much pleasure that I am at last able to record this 



interesting bird as a winter resident for South Carolina. Having searched 



for this sparrow most diligently every winter for the past thirteen years 



upon all the coast islands from Charleston to Bulls Bay and having 



failed to discover the bird, I became convinced that the coast islands were 



not to its liking and that the proper place to look for the bird with success 



would be a 'Key ' or the farthest point of land out in the ocean. Eight 



years ago I sent a stuffed specimen of this bird, together with some 



ammunition, to the lighthouse keeper at Cape Romain, S. C, but he was 



unsuccessful in obtaining or seeing the bird. On January 20, of this year 



I sent a skin of the Ispwich Sparrow, together with ammunition, to Mr. 



D. L. Taylor and wrote him when to search for the bird. On February 6, 



he sent me in the flesh, three beautiful specimens which he secured the 



day before at Keys Inlet, Bulls Bay. S. C. In his letter dated February 



•6, Mr. Taylor writes as follows: "Enclosed in box you will find some 



birds ; three of them I am sure are the right ones, but they were all 



together. I have been hunting them, but the only place I found these 



w^s at Keys Inlet. They are very scarce — there were only a few." Of 



the three" birds sent me one was a male and the others females. This 



bird can only be classed as a very rare winter visitor.— Arthur T. 



Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Ipswich Sparrow [Ammodramus frinceps) on the Mainland of 

 South Carolina. — I shot an adult female of this sparrow on March 4, 1902, 

 from the top of a bush, on the edge of an oat field, near a sandy spot. I 

 suspected that the bird was a very pale-colored Savanna Sparrow, and 

 to make the identification absolute I fired and wounded the bird which 

 proved to be the long sought for Ipswich Sparrow. The specimen was 

 taken within less than 100 yards of the spot where I shot the specimen of 

 Anthus sfragueiion November 17, 1900, and seven miles from the ocean. 

 If I have read the records of this bird correctly, this specimen makes the 

 third which has been taken "out of sight and sound of the sea."— Arthur 

 T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



