CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 5O3 



Breeding Notes. — I found a nest and four eggs of this bird as 

 I was riding over the prairie near Crescent lake, Sask., on June 

 3rd, 1 90 1. On June 6th, while driving to Saltcoats marshes we 

 flushed another Baird's sparrow off its nest containing five ex- 

 ceedingly handsome eggs. Nest on the ground at the side of the 

 trail. June 7th I found another nest and five eggs, nest, like the 

 other, made of dried grass, lined with hair, built on the ground 

 in short grass. The eggs are like well blotched eggs of the vesper 

 sparrow but are much smaller and averaging .75 x .55 inches. 

 {W. Raine.) 



CCXXIII. COTURNICULUS Bonaparte. 1838. 



546. Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Coturniculus savannarum passerinus (Wils.) Ridgw. 1885. 



Said to occur in New Brunswick by Mr. Adams. {Chamberlain.) 

 I^am quite sure this species is at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B., 

 but have not secured a specimen. {W. H. Moore.) 



There are two Toronto records, one in 1879, and the second in 

 1890. (/. H. Fleming.) Fairly common in the two southwestern 

 counties of Ontario ; increasing steadily in numbers in the London 

 district. I now meet it every year and sometimes locate five or six 

 pairs in a single season though I have not yet found a nest. {W. E. 

 Saunders.) 



546a. Western Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Corturniculus savannarum bimaculatus (Swains.) Ridgw. 1901. 

 A summer resident near Vernon, B.C. (Brooks.) 



CCXXIV. AMMODRAMUS Swainson. 1827. 



547. Henslow Sparrow. 



Ammodramus henslowii (Aud.) Gray. 1849. 



Thus far we have found this bird only near Sarnia, and at Jean- 

 nette creek, Ont., but as about a dozen birds were observed alto- 

 gether on four different occasions in two years I believe it is a fairly 

 common summer resident in the western peninsula of Ontario 



