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female, within a hundred jards of where the first was shot, and on Jan. 27 

 I saw another in the same place, but failed to secure it. This evidence 

 leads me to believe that this bird may be found, in suitable places, all 

 along the coast, at least as far south as this. The place resembles, in 

 everything except climate, their favorite haunts on the south shore of 

 Long Island, N. Y. 



I believe this record extends its range considerably south, at least on 

 the Atlantic coast. — W. W. Worthington, Shelter Island, N. T. 



The Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow and Scott's Seaside Sparrow on the 

 Coast of South Carolina. — Among a large number of Sharp-tailed Spar- 

 rows which have been collected for me on the coast of South Carolina, I 

 find no less than five typical examples of Am mod 'ram us caudacutus subvir- 

 gatus. Three of these were taken at Frogmore by Mr. Hoxie in the spring 

 of 1SS6 (5 March 19, J April 19, $ April 20), the remaining two near 

 Charleston by Mr. Wayne in the autumn of 1889 (? Oct. 25, $ Oct. 30). 

 My South Carolina series, as a whole, indicates that typical caudacutus is 

 the prevailing form, nelsoni next in numbers, and subvirgatus the least 

 common. It furnishes no evidence that any one of these forms breeds in 

 the State. There is, I think, no previous record — at least no specific 

 record — of the occurrence of subrnrgatus in South Carolina. 



I have also a Seaside Sparrow (a female) killed near Charleston by Mr. 

 Wayne, Oct. 29, 1889, which Mr. Allen considers "quite far on the way 

 towards peninsula; and * * * perhaps nearer this form than it is to mari- 

 timus," and which Mr. Wayne assures me is very much darker than any 

 specimen that he has hitherto taken. All the autumn and winter exam- 

 ples which he has sent me, except the one just mentioned, are typical 

 maritimus. I have seen no breeding Seaside Sparrows from any locality 

 on the coast of South Carolina, but the form which I found breeding in 

 the salt marshes at St. Mary's, Georgia, in 1S77, was unmistakably mari- 

 timus, not one of the dozen or more birds that I preserved (several of 

 them were taken with nests and sets of eggs) showing the slightest ap- 

 proach \.o peninsula?. In view of these facts it is hard to explain the occur- 

 rence of peninsula; in autumn or earh' winter* at points north of St. Mary's, 

 unless it may be assumed that a few individuals of this subspecies occa- 

 sionally wander northward in autumn, from their breeding grounds on 

 the Gulf Coast. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Passer domesticus in Cape Breton. — It seems noteworthy that the 

 House Sparrow made its first appearance in Cape Breton coincidently 

 with the completion of the Cape Breton Railroad, during the month of 

 November last. It is probable that the Sparrow followed up the line of 

 the road under construction, attracted by the grain and other supplies 

 transported. — W. P. Coues, Cambridge, Mass. 



* Mr. Allen has recorded (Auk, V, Oct., 1888, p. 426) a "typical A. m. peninsula" 

 shot at Sapelo Island, Dec. 14, 1887. I have also two specimens from the same locality 

 (9, Dec. 1, ° , Dec. 3, 1887) which although not quite typical, must be referred to 

 peninsula. 



