AVES. 155 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



Mass. — Uncommon local smnmer resident near coast and in 

 western valleys. (April 25) May 10-Sept. 1 (Dec. 10, 1892, Arling- 

 ton). 



R. I. — Common local summer resident. April 22-Oct. 23. 

 Eggs, May 30-Jime 5. 



CoxN. — Common summer resident in southern part and Con- 

 necticut valley. Late April- ? 



289. A]\i:\iOD RAMUS henslowii (Audubon) Gray. 

 Henslow's sparrow. 



Emberiza hen^owii xAud., Ornitli. biogr., 1831, vol. 1, p. 360, 

 pi. 77. "opposite Cincestnati, in the state of Kentucky." 



Ammodramus hensloicii (Aud.). Chapman, Handb. birds east. 

 No. Amer., 1895, p. 294. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 9, figs. 1, 2. 



Meadows and sedgy weed-gro'^Ti bogs; nests on the ground. 



X. H. — Rare local summer resident north to White ]Mt. valleys 

 (Wonalancet). April r7-Aug. 



Vt. — Rare local summer resident in southern part (PoT\Tiall). 



Mass. — Uncommon local summer resident. May 6-Sept. 

 (Nov. 6, Oster^^lle). Eggs, May 25. 



R. I. — Rare migrant and summer resident: Cranston, late 

 April, 1874; Warwick, Oct. 6, 1898; Westerly, June 6 and 8, 1900. 



CoNX. — Rare local summer resident (Eastford, Killingworth, 

 Woodstock, etc.). May-fall. Eggs, -Aug. 6. 



290. A:mmodea:\ius caltdacutus (Gmelin) Swainson. 

 Sharp-tailed sparrow. 



Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. Amer., 1895, p. 295; iVudu- 

 bon. Birds of Amer., 1841, vol. 3, p. 108, pi. 174. Egg, Capen, 

 1886, pi. 9, figs. 3, 4. 



Oriolus candacutus Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 394. 

 "in Noveboeaco." 



