Vol. XIV 
1897 
General Notes. 219 
Two New Birds for Maine. — The United Ornithologists of Maine 
report the occurrence of two birds new to the State. The February num- 
ber of the ‘Maine Sportsman,’ their official organ, published in Bangor, 
reported the taking of a Greater Redpoll, Acanthis linaria rostrata at 
Gardiner, Dec. 30, 1896, by Wm. L. Powers. The bird was shot from a 
flock of Lesser Redpolls, and the skin sent to Mr. Wm. Brewster, Cam- 
bridge, Mass., for identification. 
The March number contains the account of a number of skins collected 
in the winter of 1878-79 by James Carroll Mead of North Bridgton. Mr. 
Mead was with Mr. Powers when the Greater Redpoll was captured, and 
on returning home and inspecting his collection, he deemed it wise to 
submit them to Mr. Brewster, who identified one as the Acanthis linaria 
holboellt?, which decision was afterward ratified by Mr. Robert Ridgway 
of the Smithsonian Institution. — Wm. L. Powers, Gardner, Me. 
The Redpoll in Maryland. — Sunday, January 17, 1897, while walking 
in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, I saw a highly colored male Redpoll 
(Acanthis linaria). When first seen it was perched in a tree about twenty 
feet from me, and after watching it for some time with a field glass, I 
tried to approach nearer, but when my eyes were off it for an instant it 
disappeared from view, and although I hunted it for quite a while I was 
unable to see it a second time. 
I was surprised to see one, as I have only expected them during very 
severe weather, whereas we have not had such, the thermometer at the 
time registering 42°. — Wn. H. FisHer, Baltimore, Md. 
Bachman’s Sparrow in Maryland.— While passing through an old 
scattered pine wood on April 29, 1896, near Kensington, Maryland, my 
attention was attracted by the loud and unfamiliar song of a Sparrow 
perched well up in an old dead pine top. I secured the bird, which 
turned out to be an adult male Peucea estivalis bachmani? in well worn 
plumage. Close by in another pine I crippled another which managed 
to reach the top of the tree and remained hidden in spite of my efforts 
to dislodge it. This is: apparently the most northern record on the 
Atlantic Slope, and is a new addition for Maryland.—J. D. FiGcGrns, 
Washington, D. C. 
The Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) at Middletown, R. I.— 
In looking over a collection of land and water birds taken by Mr. Edward 
Sturtevant in Rhode Island, I found a specimen of a male Seaside Spar- 
row which he had shot near Gardiners Pond on the Second Beach 
Marshes in Middletown on July 18, 1889. 
During the past summer I walked over these same marshes, but did not 
see a bird that justified shooting as a Seaside, among the many Sharp- 
tailed Sparrows (A. caudacutus) that inhabited the marshes. But on 
July 6, 1896, Mr. Sturtevant took a female A. marz¢tzmus on the marshes. 
