634 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 
merously in Northern New England, Springfield is consider- 
ably south of their customary breeding range. 
SHARP-TAILED FiNcH. -Ammodromus caudacutus Swain. 
Some half a dozen nests and as many pairs of the birds were 
obtained the present year, by Mr. H. W. Henshaw in the 
Charles River marshes in Cambridge. These are the only 
recent instances known to me of the finding of the nest of 
this species in Massachusetts. None of the Seaside Finches 
were observed, though they were formerly known to breed 
in the Chelsea marshes, and probably do still. 
TREE Sparrow. „Spizella monticola Baird. I mentioned 
‘in my Catalogue that a nest of this species was found in this 
state in 1855 by Mr. E. Samuels, there being a record to 
that effect in the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Bos- 
ton Society of Natural History (p. 213). I have since 
learned from Mr. E. A. Samuels that this was a case of 
malidentification, the nest and eggs being really those of the 
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella socialis). Dr. Brewer confirms 
the latter account, and says he has the nest in-his possession. 
Livconw's Sparrow.  Melospiza Lincolnii Baird. The 
first record of the occurrence of this species in Massachusetts 
is given in my Catalogue, at which time I had taken three 
specimens at Springfield. It has since been taken by Mr. S. 
Jillson, at Hudson,— one specimen in May, 1867, and 
another in May, 1868. In 1867 I took it in May in Wayne 
County, N. Y., when it appeared to be not uncommon, and 
in Northern Illinois the same year I found it numerous. 
SwawP Sparrow. Melospiza palustris Baird. In the 
“Addenda” to Dr. Coues’ "List of the Birds of New England" 
Istated I had never met with this species in the breeding 
season. I have since learned that it is not at all uncommon 
at that season at several localities in the eastern part of the 
state; some years it breeds quite numerously in the Fresh 
Pond marshes. 
Brack-rHRoATED BuwTING.  Éuspiza Americana Bon. 
. Since the publication of my Catalogue, Mr. C. W. Bennett 

