The Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow and Scott’s Seaside Sparrow on the 
Coast of South Carolina. — Among a large number of Sharp-tailed Spar- 
rows which have been collected for me on the coast of South Carolina, I 
find no less than five typical examples of Ammodramus caudacutus subvir- 
gatus. Three of these were taken at Frogmore by Mr. Hoxie in the spring 
of 1886 ($ March 19, $ April 19, $ April 20), the remaining two near 
Charleston by Mr. Wayne in the autumn of 1889 (? Oct. 25, $ Oct. 30). 
My South Carolina series, as a whole, indicates that typical caudacutus is 
the prevailing form, nelsoni next in numbers, and subvirgatus the least 
common. It furnishes no evidence that any one of these forms breeds in 
the State. There is, I think, no previous record — at least no specific 
record — of the occurrence of subvirgatus in South Carolina. 
I have also a Seaside Sparrow (a female) killed near Charleston by Mr. 
Wayne, Oct. 29, 1889, which Mr. Allen considers “quite far on the way 
towards peninsulas and * * * perhaps nearer this form than it is to mari- 
timus and which Mr. Wayne assures me is very much darker than any 
specimen that he has hitherto taken. All the autumn and winter exam- 
ples which he has sent me, except the one just mentioned, are typical 
maritimus. I have seen no breeding Seaside Sparrows from any locality 
on the coast of South Carolina, but the form which I found breeding in 
the salt marshes at St. Mary’s, Georgia, in 1S77, was unmistakably mari- 
timus , not one of the dozen or more birds that I preserved (several of 
them were taken with nests and sets of eggs) showing the slightest ap- 
proach to peninsula. In view of these facts it is hard to explain the occur- 
rence oifteninsulcevR. autumn or early winter* at points north of St. Mary’s, 
unless it may be assumed that a few individuals of this subspecies occa- 
sionally wander northward in autumn, from their breeding grounds on 
the Gulf Coast. — William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
Auk, VII. April. 1800. p. j 3 / 3 , . 
* Mr. Allen has recorded (Auk, V, Oct., 1888, p. 426) a “typical A. m. peninsula" 
shot at Sapelo Island, Dec. 14, 1887. I have also two specimens from the same locality 
( 9 , Dec. x, J, Dec. 3, 1887) which although not quite typical, must be referred to 
peninsula. 
