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542. Sandwicli Sparrow. 



Passercidus safidwichensis (Gmel.) Baird. 1858. 



Common about the prairies and open timbered lands. {Lord.) 

 Common on the coast in the fall. (Streator.) An abundant summer 

 resident west of Coast range ; breeds on Vancouver island. (Fannin.) 

 Tolerably common migrant at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) A few speci- 

 mens taken at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1901 ; taken at 

 Hastings, April, 1889; first seen near Victoria, Vancouver island, 

 about April 20th, 1893, by May 4th they v*^ere common. (Spread- 

 borough.) One seen on April 23rd, 1887, at Victoria; abundant the 

 next day ; common along the sea coast at Salt Spring island, Nanaimo 

 and Comox. (Macoun.) 



A few were seen on Unalaska island, October 5th, 1899, and two 

 young secured. (Bishop.) This species occurs during the summer 

 along the entire Aleutian chain and on the island of Kadiak, in 

 addition to the southeastern shore of the territory. Dall cites it 

 from Unalaska where he found it numerous, as he did also to the 

 eastward, but he did not find it to the west of that island. (Nelson.) 

 This species is one of the earliest arrivals at Unalaska, usually about 

 the loth of May. They breed in June in the grass. (Turner.) On 

 June 3rd, 1890, in a grassy patch near Lukannin beach, on St. Paul 

 island, I several times flushed a sparrow which I identified as this 

 species. (Palmer.) Five specimens were taken on Amagnak island, 

 near Dutch harbour, Unalaska, in September, 1897. (Grinnell.) 

 Anderson took ten specimens at Muller bay, Alaska peninsula, in 

 1903. (Chapman.) 



Breeding Notes. — On June loth, 1893, at Vancouver, B.C., 

 found a nest and five eggs of this bird. The nest was built on the 

 ground, made of dried grass and hned with hair. The eggs are 

 greenish-white, heavily blotched and spotted with light brown and 

 lilac; size .74 by .54 inches. (W. Raine.) 



542a. Savanna Sparrow. 



Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (WiLS.) Ridgw. 1880. 



Common throughout eastern Labrador; breeds at the mouth of 

 the Koaksoak river and at Davis inlet. (Packard.) Tolerably com- 

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