28 BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL CLUB. 



to record the occurrence of this species in a locality so far removed from 

 its linown haunts, it not having been before observed so far in the interior, 

 since, from the miss-fire of two cartridges in succession, I failed to captnre 

 my bird, were I, not perfectly acquainted with it3 almost unmistakable 

 habits. 



3. Stris: flammea var. pratincola Bonap. Baku Owl. — Mr. L. C. 

 Daniels, of this city (Portland), has in his possession a epeaimen of this 

 owl which he shot in Falmouth, June 10, 1866. It was iilled while fly- 

 ing across an open field. It has nut, I think, been before recorded as found 

 in Maine. 



4. Tringa bairdii Copies. Baird's Sandpiper. — My brother, Mr. 

 Philip G. Brown, shot a young male of this species as it was flying along 

 Scarborough Beach, on September 9, 1875. It was in company with an- 

 other bird, apparently of the same species, which escaped. This is its finit 

 recorded appearance on the coast of Maine. 



5. Thallassidroma leachii Bonap. Leach's Petrel. — This Petrel 

 breeds in large numbers on several of the outer islands of Casco Bay, 

 southeast of Portland. Although I have often been told by fishermen 

 and sportsmen of the existence of colonies of these birds on certain of our 

 islands, I never was able to verify their reports until the middle of last 

 August, [when I made three visits to two barren rocks known as the 

 " Green Islands," once in company with Mr. E. N. Atwood of Cape Eliza- 

 beth. I found about forty nests, half of whicli at this late date were 

 empty, the remainder containing squabs in different stages of develop- 

 ment. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Mc, November 12, 1876. 



Northern Range op the Sharp-tailed Finch (Ammodromus cau- 

 daeutus). — My friend, Mr. William Stone of Cambridge, has recently 

 presented me "with five specimens of the Sharp-tailed Finch which he 

 shot at Tignish, Prince Edward's Island, on August 2 and 3, 1876. The 

 locality where they were taken, as he describes it to me, was exceptional, 

 — a wide waste of marsh, dry, and at some distance from the sea, grown 

 up to bushes, with a few scattered dead pine stubs, remnants of a former 

 forest. Throughout this tract these birds were abundant, the males singing 

 on all sides from the tops of the bushes. The individuals examined are 

 all adults in very pale, Avorn breeding plumage. Dr. Coues, in his " Birds 

 of New England " (Proc. Essex lust., Vol. V, p. 282)^ gives Ammodromus 

 miritimus as occurring at Rye Beach, No-W Hampshire, but this record, he 

 informs rae by letter, was a mistake, the bird Avhich he found there being 

 A. caudacutus. The finding of the Sharp- tailed Finch in numbers at 

 Tignisi, taken in connection with the f^ct of its recent detection at Scar- 

 borough, Me,, by Mr. N. C. Brown [see above], lenders it extremely 

 probable that it may occur regularly, at suitable localities, all along the 

 intermediate line of coast. — William Brewster. 



