Savannah Spahkow. — I think that part of 
the article on this species, in the Septem- 
ber number of this magazine, is rather 
misleading, at least my observations in 
New Brunswick would suggest a different 
report, for while it is true that these birds 
seem to have a strong liking for the sea 
shore, the inference that they are not found 
elsewhere is not correct. In the vicinity of 
the Bay of Bundy they certainly build their 
nests nowhere else than in a marsh or field 
close by the salt water, and they are found 
in field or marsh along the river bank, 
where the water is brackish, but they are 
also found all along the banks of the St. 
John river, from Fredericton to Fort Kent, 
the latter place being some 250 miles or 
more away from salt water. They are also 
quite common in the fields bordering Grand 
Lake and "YVashademoak Lake into which 
no salt water enters. — M. Chamberlain. 
O. & O. V21. T ' 1882 - p - ** 2 
