°jg I General Notes. 2 TO 



Two New Birds for Maine. — The United Ornithologists of Maine 

 report the occurrence of two birds new to the State. Tlie February num- 

 ber of the 'Maine Sportsman,' their official organ, published in Bangor, 

 reported the taking of a Greater Redpoll, Acanthis linaria rostrata at 

 Gardiner, Dec. 30, 1896, hy Wm. L. Powers. The bird was shot from a 

 flock of Lesser Redpolls, and the skin sent to Mr. Wm. Brewster, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., for identification. 



The March number contains the account of a number of skins collected 

 in the winter of 1S78-79 bj James Carroll Mead of North Bridgton. Mr. 

 Mead was with Mr. Powers when the Greater Redpoll was captured, and 

 on returning home and inspecting his collection, he deemed it wise to 

 submit them to Mr. Brewster, who identified one as the Acanthis linaria 

 holboellii, which decision was afterward ratified by Mr. Robert Ridgwav 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. — Wm. L. Powers, Gardiner, Me. 



The Redpoll in Maryland. — Sunday, January 17, 1S97, while walking 

 in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, I saw a highly colored male Redpoll 

 (^Acanthis linaria'). When first seen it was perched in a tree about twenty 

 feet from me, and after watching it for some time with a field glass, I ' 

 tried to approach nearer, but when my eyes were off it for an instant it 

 disappeared from yiew, and although I hunted it for quite a while I Ayas 

 unable to see it a second time. 



I was surprised to see one, as I haye only expected them during yery 

 severe Ayeather, whereas we haye not had such, the thermometer at the 

 time registering 42^^. — Wm. H. Fisher, Baliitnore, Md. 



Bachman's Sparrow in Maryland. — While passing through an old 

 scattered pine wood on April 29, 1896, near Kensington, Maryland, my 

 attention was attracted by the loud and unfamiliar song of a Sparrow- 

 perched well up in an old dead pine top. I secured the bird, which 

 turned out to be an adult male Peiiccea cestivalis bachmanii in well worn 

 plumage. Close by in another pine I crippled another which managed 

 to reach the top of the tree and remained hidden in spite of my efforts 

 to dislodge it. This is apparently the most northern record on the 

 Atlantic Slope, and is a new addition for Maryland. — J. D. Figgins, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Seaside Sparrow {Ammodramus mai-itimus) aX Middletown, R. I. — 

 In looking oyer a collection of land and water birds taken by Mr. Edward 

 Sturteyant in Rhode Island, I found a specimen of a male Seaside Spar- 

 row Avhich he had shot near Gardiners Pond on the Second Beach 

 Marshes in Middletown on July 18, 1889. 



During the past summer I walked oyer these same marshes, but did not 

 see a bird that justified shooting as a Seaside, among the many Sharp- 

 tailed Sparrows {A. caridacutiis) that inhabited the marshes. But on 

 July 6, 1896, Mr. Sturteyant took a female A. maritimiis on the marshes. 



