[From The Auk, Vol. II, No. 3, p. 306, July, 1885.] 
Capture of Ammodramus caudacutus nelsoni in the Lower Hudson 
Valley, New York. — For a short time in the autumn, included in the time 
between the 25th of September and the 10th of October, Sharp-tailed 
Finches are comparatively common over certain portions of the low 
meadows which border the Croton River near its mouth. Some dozen 
or more specimens have been secured in the last four or five years, and 
without exception all of them were of the smaller inland variety. They 
are easily distinguished from the typical maritime species, by their • 
smaller size, shorter bill, and darker plumage. They are evidently 
migrants, as none of them have been observed in this vicinity in summer. 
— A. K. Fisher, M. D. , Sing Sing, N. T. 
79. Ammodramus caudacutus nelsoni Allen. Nelson’s Sparrow. 
The Sharp-tailed Sparrows recorded by me from the Hudson Highlands 
have recently been referred by Mr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., to this form, 
although he considers them to be intermediate between subspecies nelsoni 
and subvirgatus, approaching a little more closely to nelsoni. 
Mearns, Auk, VII. Jan. 1890. p. ft- 
Nelson’s Sparrow ( Ammodramus nelsoni ) on Long Island, N. Y. — It is 
with satisfaction that Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow is herewith recorded 
as taken within Long Island boundaries. This species was included in the 
‘List of the Birds of Long Island, New York,’ which appears in the last 
number of ‘Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Linnsean Society of New 
York,’ with some hesitation, since search through the literature, collections 
of birds and generously offered field-notes of others failed to confirm my 
assumption that is was certainly a migrant. Dr. Bishop found it on the 
Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, in late September and October, 
and it was therefore made an exception, and included, as was clearly 
stated in the note on this species (p. 82 ), without its having ever been 
taken on Long Island. A specimen was first secured by the writer on 
October 5 , 1907 , at Rockaway Beach. — William C. Braislin, M. D., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ^ ^ 
Hudson 
Highlands . 
