Birds of Southern New Brunswic 
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7. Ammodromus caudacutus. Sharp-tailed Finch— On June 21, 
1881, five individuals of this species were taken by Mr. H. A. I urdie 
Mr. Fred. W. Daniel and myself, on a marsh near Hampton, lhis marsh 
is watered by the Kenebecasis, a tributary of the St. John, and lies some 
twenty-five miles up the former river. The junction of the two rivers 
takes place about five miles from the mouth of the St. John. The marsh 
is some twenty miles, air line, from the nearest point on the Bay of Fundy 
shore, and at the time we visited it, the water running past it did not taste 
in the least brackish.* 
Bull. N.O.O, 7, April. 1882, p.105 
AmMODRAMUS CAUDACUTUS. — A SOMEWHAT ISLAND RECORD ON THE 
Atlantic Coast. — On June 21, 1881, in company with my friends 
Messrs. Chamberlain and Daniel, of St. John, N. B., I found a few pairs 
of Sharp-tailed Finches in the tall grassy marshes bordering the Kene- 
becasis River at Hampton, which is about twenty miles to the north of the 
above named city and the Bay of Fundy. and about at the head of tide water. 
The birds were singing, and undoubtedly breeding, but a severe hunt for 
their nests was unsuccessful. Although a closely allied variety ( nelsoni ) is 
known to occur in certain western States. I think our maritime form has 
not before been observed away from the immediate coast on the Atlantic 
seaboard. It might however be looked for up our rivers and creeks as far 
as or a little above the flow of tide water. See this Bulletin, II, pp. 27, 28 ; 
TIT no. 48. q8; V, p. — H. A. Purdie, Newton, Mass. , , a 
in, pp- 4°- 9 8 > ’ p J ulliN ,o.O. 7, April, 1882, p, U * ■ 
Northern Range 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 waste of marsh, dry, and at some distance from the sea, grown 
up to bushes, with h 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, worn breeding plumage. Dr. Coues, in his “ Birds 
of New England ” (Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. Y, p. 282), gives Ammodromus 
rmritimus as occurring at Rye Beach, New Hampshire, but this record, he 
informs me by letter, was a mistake, the bird which he found there being 
A. caudacutus. The finding of the Sharp-tailed Finch in numbers at 
Tignish, taken in connection with the fact of its recent detection at Scar- 
borough, Me., by Mr. N. C. Brown [see above], renders it extremely 
probable that it may occur regularly, at suitable localities, all along the 
intermediate line of coast. — William Brewster. 
BuU. N.O.O, 2. Jan., 1877. p. 
