250 FRINGILl^ID^E : FINCHES. 



Bost. Soc., xix v 1878, p. 305. Breivster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, ii, 1877, p. 28; Prince Edward's Island. From 

 these and other records the following items are de- 

 rived. 



Mr. N. C. Brown, of Portland, Me., writing Nov. 

 I2th, 1876, says : " I have found this species, now, I 

 believe, for the first time recorded as a bird of Maine, 

 a rare inhabitant of a certain part of the great marsh 

 in Scarborough." Mr. Wm. Brewster, in speaking of 

 the northern range of this bird, says, that Mr. Wm. 

 Storer, of Cambridge, Mass., shot five specimens at 

 Tiquish, Prince Edward's Island, August 2d and 3d, 

 1876. From the record it appears that others were ob- 

 served, and Mr. Brewster properly remarks that the 

 finding of these and Mr. Brown's specimen " render it 

 extremely probable that it may occur regularly, at 

 suitable localities, all along the intermediate line of 

 coast." Dr. T. M. Brewer says that Mr. George O. 

 Welch, of Lynn, Mass., found this species quite abun- 

 dant on the shores of St. Andrew's Bay, lying be- 

 tween the eastern boundary of Maine and New Bruns- 

 wick, the farthest eastern record up to that time. Mr. 

 N. C. Brown, who has carefully studied the distribu- 

 tion of this bird in Maine, says: "Late in October, 

 1876, I observed a few individuals of this species on 

 Pine Point, a sandy strip of land which forms the east- 

 ward extremity of the great Scarboro' marshes ;" also, 

 that this was "considerably eastward of their previously 

 known range ;" not having detected it before he care- 

 fully watched the place, and " not a bird was to be 

 found until about October ist. At that date great num- 

 bers appeared on the marshes and sea-beaches adja- 

 cent to Pine Point, and for a couple of weeks they 



