q Ank, XIY, Apr. , 1 . 897 , pp. 5 -%zo 
I he beaside bparrow {Ammoaramus mantimus) at Middletown, R. I. 
In looking over a collection of land and water birds taken by Mr. Edward 
Sturtevant in Rhode Island, I found a specimen of a male Seaside Spar- 
row which he had shot near Gardiners Pond on the Second Beach 
Marshes in Middletown on July 18, 1889. 
During the past summer I walked over these same marshes, but did not 
see a bird that justified shooting as a Seaside, among the many Sharp- 
tailed Sparrows (A. caudacutus) that inhabited the marshes. But on 
July 6, 1896, Mr. Sturtevant took a female A. maritimus on the marshes. 
Personally, I think that a few of these Sparrows breed on the Middle- 
town marshes yearly, and if this is a fact it moves their known breeding 
range sixteen miles to the northward, or in other words from Point Judith 
marshes to Middletown. 
I cannot think that after breeding is over, which by July 6 could hardly 
be, the birds would roam sixteen miles to the northward across ocean. 
However, we have at least two records of their capture there ; if nothing 
more. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Long-wood , Mass. 
T , „ „ Ank XIV, July, 1^97, p .3 32, 
lhe beaside Sparrow ( Ammoaramus mantimus ) at Middletown, R. I. 
I shot an adult male Seaside Sparrow on the Second Beach Marshes at 
Middletown, R. I., on May 31, 1897, therefore confirming Mr. Reginald 
Heber Howe, Jr’s, supposition that they breed there. (See Auk Vol. 
XIV, page 219.) This makes three birds of this species that I have taken 
on these marshes. — Edward Sturtevant, Boston , Mass. 
