Auk, XV, April, 1898, p 
Occurrence of Leconte’s Sparrow ( Ammodramus lecontii ) at Ithaca, 
N. Y. — While searching the large marsh at the head of Cayuga Lake 
for fall migrants, I succeeded in securing a specimen of Leconte’s Spar- 
row. The bird was taken at the edge of the marsh, where a stream had 
washed up the mud, making a higher and drier bank, and where, in con- 
sequence, the grasses were thicker and less aquatic in character. The 
specimen I obtained was a young bird, in the first plumage after the 
nestling plumage, thus, in all probability, showing that it had been bred 
at no very great distance from where it was taken. The date of its 
capture was October u, 1897. Further careful search, both on the same 
day, and for many days thereafter, failed to reveal any more of the 
species.— Louis Agassiz Fuertes , Ithaca, N. T. 
