ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES 123 



A rare spring and autumn migrant, except in the Berkshires, 

 where it is apparently not uncommon. 



May 5 to May 27 (June 6); September 23 to November 5. 

 Amherst : " Irregular migrant in May." Berkshire : " Common tran- 

 sient visitant in the valley country." Bristol County: " Rare transient 

 visitant." Brookline : "Rare migrant." Cambridge: Uncommon tran- 

 sient visitant. Cohasset : " Rare in May ; once in June." Dedham : 

 "Very rare. 1 ' Essex County : "Very rare." Ipswich: " Several seen." 

 Springfield: "Rare spring and autumn visitor." Templeton : "Rare 

 migrant." Wellesley : " Scarce migrant." 



339. Chondestes grammacus (Say). LARK FINCH. 

 Accidental from the west. The records are : Gloucester, one 



about 1845, according to S. Jillson ; 1 Newtonville, a female was 

 taken November 25, 1877. by Mr. C. J. Maynard ; ' 2 Magnolia, one 

 taken August 27, 1879, by Mr. W. S. Townsend ; 8 Framing ham, 

 one captured April 29, 1882, by F. C. Browne. This bird was 

 probably the same as one seen in the same place on April 6. 4 



340. Ammodramus maritimus (Wils.). SEASIDE SPARROW. 

 A rare local summer resident along the coast. It was found 



breeding at Westport in 1896, and it is said to be not rare there 

 as a summer resident. 5 On February 9, 1898, Messrs. H. B. 

 Bige'low and G. C. Shattuck took one on the salt marshes of 

 Sandy Neck, West Barnstable : at the time the bird was supposed 

 to be but an accidental straggler, 6 but on February 9, 1901, Mr. 

 Howe, in company with the latter of the above gentlemen, visited 

 the Sandy Neck marshes, and on the edge of the dunes at nearly 

 exactly the same point, in a somewhat restricted portion of the 

 marshes, flushed and killed another bird, which was a male. The 

 taking of two specimens on the same marsh would, beside the 

 seeing of another [?] by Mr. Howe on February 6, 1901, point 

 to the probability of the species breeding there. It has also 



1 Putnam ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. I, 1856, p. 224. 



2 Purdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, No. i, Jan., 1878, p. 44. 



3 Townsend ; ibid., Vol. V, No. I, Jan., 1880, p. 53. 



4 Browne; ibid., Vol. VIII, No. 3, July, 1883, pp. 181, 182. 



5 Farley ; Auk, Vol. XIV, No. 3, July, 1897, p. 322. 



6 Howe; Auk, Vol. XV, No. 2, Apr., 1898, p. 189. 



