634 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 



merously in Northern New England, Springfield is consider- 

 ably south of their customary breeding range. 



SHARP-TAILED FINCH. Ammodromus caudacutus Swain. 

 Some half a dozen nests and as many pairs of the birds were 

 obtained the present year, by Mr. H. W. Henshaw in the 

 Charles River marshes in Cambridge. These are the only 

 recent instances known to me of the finding of the nest of 

 this species in Massachusetts. None of the Seaside Finches 

 were observed, though they were formerly known to breed 

 in the Chelsea marshes, and probably do still. 



TREE SPARROW. Spizella monticola Baird. I mentioned 

 in my Catalogue that a nest of this species was found in this 

 state in 1855 by Mr. E. Samuels, there being a record to 

 that effect in the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History (p. 213). I have since 

 learned from Mr. E. A. Samuels that this was a case of 

 malidentification, the nest and eggs being really those of the 

 Chipping Sparrow (Spizella socialis). Dr. Brewer confirms 

 the latter account, and says he has the nest in his possession. 



LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Meloxpiza Lincolnii Baird. The 

 first record of the occurrence of this species in Massachusetts 

 is given in my Catalogue, at which time I had taken three 

 specimens at Springfield. It has since been taken by Mr. S. 

 Jillson, at Hudson, one specimen in May, 1867, and 

 another in May, 1868. In 1867 I took it in May in Wayne 

 County, N. Y., when it appeared to be not uncommon, and 

 in Northern Illinois the same }'ear I found it numerous. 



SWAMP SPARROW. Melospiza palustris Baird. In the 

 "Addenda" to Dr. Cones' "List of the Birds of New England" 

 I stated I had never met with this species in the breeding 

 season. I have since learned that it is not at all uncommon 

 at that season at several localities in the eastern part of the 

 state ; some years it breeds quite numerously in the Fresh 

 Pond marshes. 



BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. Euspiza Americana Bon. 

 Since the publication of my Catalogue, Mr. C. W. Bennett 



