84 J. A. ALLEN, CATALOGUE OF 



Occasional or accidental in winter. (Brookline, S. Elliot 

 Green, Peabody's Rep., p. 402.) Resident at Calais, 

 Maine, but not common. (G. A. Boardrnan, Proc. B. S. 

 N. H., vol. ix, p. 126.) 



18. Centrophanes lapponicus Kaup. Lapland Long- 

 spur. Winter visitant. Occasional, or accidental. (F. 

 W. Putnam, Proc. Ess. Inst., vol. i, p. 210.) 



19. Ammodromus maritimus Swain. Sea-side Finch. 

 Summer visitant. Common in the salt marshes along the 

 coast, where it breeds. 



20. Ammodromus caudacutus Swain. Sharp-tailed 

 Finch. Common summer visitant in salt marshes, where 

 it breeds. Have taken it in the marshes of Charles River 

 the last week in October. 



21 Chondestes grammaca Bon. Lark Finch. Acci- 

 dental. " One found in Gloucester, about 1845." (S Jill- 

 son, Proc. Essex Inst., vol. I, p. 224.) 



22. Euspiza americana Bon. Black-throated Bunting. 

 Probably rare or occasional. Said to be found here by 

 Nuttall (Man. Orn., vol. I, p. 461). According to Pea- 

 body, " is found in high meadows near salt water marshes, 

 from the middle of May till the last of August." (Rep. 

 Orn. of Mass., p. 319.) Mr. E. A. Samuels informs me that 

 he has seen two specimens killed in this State ; one was 

 sent him from Woburn. Nuttall, in his account of the 

 notes and habits of this species, as observed here, has de- 

 scribed the peculiar song and habits of the Yellow-winged 

 Sparrow ( Coturniculus passerinus Bon.) with remarkable 

 aptness, which species he evidently mistook for the Black- 

 throated Bunting. Nuttall seems not to have known the 

 Yellow-winged Sparrow, under its proper name, at the 

 time he wrote, and it is difficult to tell what he had in 

 mind when describing its habits and distribution in the 

 breeding season ; his description of its song, which he 

 strangely likens to that of the Purple Finch, and of its 

 eggs, being not at all applicable to the Yellow-winged 

 Sparrow. As Nuttall has been the authority chiefly de- 

 pended on for the occurrence of Euspiza americana in this 

 State, I strongly doubted its having been taken here, till 

 assured of the fact by Mr. Samuels. 



The Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca ccerulea Swain.j may be 



