good order, and did not fm-nish entirely' satisfactory indications. But we 

 now have a fine series from this identical island, showing the assigned 

 specific characters to be valid; and the species has been promptly accepted 

 by the A. O. U. Committee. I refrain from further remarks, not wishing 

 to anticipate anything that Mr. A. W. Anthony, the rediscoverer of the 

 species, may have to say on the subject. 



While on the genus or subgenus Passerculiis, I may note a possible 

 nomenclatural question which seems incident to our reference of Passer, 

 cuius to the genus Ammodramiis. This gives us the name A. savanna for 

 one species, and A. savannaruni for another. As these two names are of 

 course the same word, only differing in terminal inflection, it may be that 

 both cannot stand in the same genus. If so, it becomes a particularly 

 awkward and unlucky matter; tor savanna rum Gm.., 1788, after Latham, 

 Brisson,and Sloane, for the Jamaican form of the Yellow-winged Sparrow, 

 antedates savanna Wils., iSii, for the Savannah Sparrow, and thus the 

 latter unhappy bird loses its claim to its most distinctive designation — • 

 the very one, too, that gives it its common English name. As I do not 

 find any other subspecific name that has been applied to our familiar 

 eastern form, this may require a new one. I am quite ready to sink 

 Coturniculus in Amniodramus, but think we may well recognize Passer- 

 culus as a full genus. That would seem to be one way out of the present 

 difficulty, but does not do away w-ith the real trouble, which goes back to 

 FringiUa savanna WiLS. vs. Fringilla savannaruni Gm. Failing any 

 other resource, our Eastern Savannah Sparrow may be called ^;«;«(?rf/-rt«//« 

 (^Passerculus) sandzvic/iensis %vilso>iianus. — Elliott Coues, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Occurrence of Baird's Sparrow {Animodramus bairdii) in Washington. 

 — On the 5th of September, 1895, while residing at Chelan in Okanogan 

 County, Washington, I first met this bird. Onlv one specimen was 

 secin-ed, but the birds were abundant on weedy bottom lands along the 

 lower end of I^ake Chelan. Thev kept for the most part pretty close to 

 the ground, where thev seemed to be feeding on a little wild bean. The 

 migration was noted up to the 9th, when the last specimens were seen. 



The return movement of spring was less noticeable. On the 29th of 

 April, 1896, I came across perhaps a dozen Baird's Sparrows in the sage- 

 brush of an upland pasture, mixing freely with ZonotricJiia leucophrxs 

 intermedia. An elegant male, with yellow areas in maximuiu color, was 

 taken from a willow cliuiip In the water's edge on May 11. — Willi.\m L. 

 Dawson, Oherlin, Ohio. 



Acadian Sparrow in Yates County, N. Y. — Oct. 7, 1896, I look a male 

 Acadian Sparrow (^.Aniniodramus caudacutus subvirgatus^ and saw one 

 more. The one I took was identified by Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr. I 

 think there were more of them here, as the marsh grass was full of small 

 Sparrows, but I was only sure of seeing two of the Acadian. ^ — -Verdi 

 BuRiCH, Penn Van, N. Y. 



