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taken on the ground near a lake, each contained five eggs ; common 

 in the foothills, south of Calgary in 1897; first seen on April 25th, 

 common by 29th, at Penticton south of Lake Okanagan, B.C. ; common 

 from Lesser Slave lake to Peace River Landing, lat. 56° 15', June, 

 1903; common on the damp grass land from Edmonton to Jasper 

 House, also in the MacLennan River valley, B.C., in 1898 ; this 

 species was taken at Banff, in the Rocky mountains, in 1891, and 

 in other years at Revelstoke, mouth of Salmon river, Fernie, Midway, 

 Similkameen river, Penticton, Douglas, Agassiz and Huntingdon, 

 B.C.; also at Victoria, Vancouver island and very abundant along 

 the beach at Clayoquot Sound in September and October, 1907. 

 (Spreadborough.) This is a common species from the Saskatchewan 

 northward to the "barren grounds." (Richardson.) Not uncommon, 

 but in summer only, and breeding here on the prairie at Prince 

 Albert, Sask. (Coubeaux.) Common down the Mackenzie river 

 to its mouth. (Ross.) Very abundant in marshy and sparsely 

 wooded tracts or plains near Fort Anderson and on the lower river, 

 'seeing that "upwards of 200 nests vdth eggs" were collected in 

 that quarter. They were all placed on the ground and composed 

 of dry stems of grasses lined with finer materials of the same. 

 Sometimes the nests are lined with a few feathers and deer hair. 

 The number of eggs in a nest was four or five. (Macfarlane.) 



Common about the prairies and open places. (Lord.) Abundant 

 summer resident on the coast. (Streator.) Summer resident on 

 the coast. (Fannin.) An abundant summer resident at Chilliwack, 

 an occasional bird remaining all winter. (Brooks.) This form, 

 breeds in all localities in British Columbia from the Rocky mountains 

 to the coast, including the islands, from the sea level to 5,000 feet. 

 (Rhoads.) Sumas prairie. Lulu island and English bay, B.C. ; 

 common at those localities. (E. F. G. White.) Next to the Lapland 

 longspur this bird is the most abundant of the sparrow tribe through- 

 out the Behring sea coast region of Alaska, and it extends thence 

 north to the Arctic shores of the territory. (Nelson.) This species 

 was not obtained at the Aleutian islands, but at St. Michael it was as 

 common as the other species. (Turner.) The western Savanna 

 sparrow was fairly numerous in the vicinity of Cape Blossom, 

 Kotzebue sound. The grassy meadows bordering lagoons seemed 

 to be its most congenial haunt, although I met with a few on the 

 hillsides towards the interior of the peninsula; young were half- 



