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to record the occurrence of this species in a locality so far removed from 
its known haunts, it not having been before observed so far in the interior, 
since, from the miss-fire of two cartridges in succession, I failed to capture 
my bird, were I not perfectly acquainted with its almost unmistakable 
habits. 
3. Strix flammea var. pratincola Bonap. Barn Owl. — Mr. L. C. 
Daniels, of this city (Portland), has in his possession a specimen of this 
owl which he shot in Falmouth, June 10, 1866. It was killed while fly- 
ing across an open field. It has not, I think, been before recorded as found 
in Maine. 
4. Tringa bairdii Coues. Baird’s Sandpiper. — My brother, Mr. 
Philip G. Brown, shot a young male of this species as it was flying along 
Scarborough Beach, on September 9, 1875. It was in company with an- 
other bird, apparently of the same species, which escaped. This is its first 
recorded appearance on the coast of Maine. 
5. Tliallassidroma leachii Bonap. Leach’s Petrel. — This Petrel 
breeds in large numbers on several of the outer islands of Casco Bay, 
southeast of Portland. Although I have often been told by fishermen 
and sportsmen of the existence of colonies of these birds on certain of our 
islands, I never was able to verify their reports until the middle of last 
August, [when I made three visits to two barren rocks known as the 
“ Green Islands,” once in company with Mr. E. N. Atwood of Cape Eliza- 
beth. I found about forty nests, half of whicli at this late date were 
empty, the remainder containing squabs in different stages of develop- 
ment. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Me.., November 1% 1876. 
Northern Kange of the Sharp-tailed Finch {Ammodromus cau- 
dacutus). — My friend, Mr. William Stone of Cambridge, has recently 
presented me with five specimens of the Sharp-tailed Finch which he 
shot at Tignish, Prince Edward’s Island, on August 2 and 3, 1876. The 
locality where they were taken, as he describes it to me, was exceptional, 
— a wide Avaste of marsh, dry, and at some distance from the sea, grown 
up to bushes, with a few scattered dead pine stubs, remnants of a former 
forest. Throughout this tract these birds were abundant, the males singing 
on all sides from the tops of the bushes. The individuals examined are 
all adults in very pale, Avorn breeding plumage. Dr. Coues, in his “ Birds 
of NeAv England” (Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. V, p. 282), gives Ammodromus 
maritimus as occurring at Bye Beach, NeAV Hampshire, but this record, he 
informs me by letter, Avas a mistake, the bird Avhich he found there being 
A. caudacutus. The finding of the Sharp-tailed Finch in numbers at 
Tignish, taken in connection Avith the fact of its recent detection at Scar- 
borough, Me., by Mr. N. C. BroAvn [see above], renders it extremely 
probable that it may occur regularly, at suitable localities, all along the 
intermediate line of coast. — William Brewster. 
