Nelson’s Sparrow in Vermont. — While watching the fall migration 
of sparrows on October 8, 1916, Mr. George H. Ross and the writer col- 
lected two adult male specimens of Passerherbulus nelsoni nelsoni. These 
are the first records for this bird in Vermont as far as the writer can ascer- 
tain. The birds were obtained in sedges in the wettest parts of swampy 
meadows adjacent to Otter Creek which runs from the Green Mountains 
into Lake Champlain. One of the birds was taken in Rutland and the 
other in Clarendon, about three miles apart. They were not in company 
of any other birds. — George L. Kirk, Rutland, Vt. 
