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A juvenile about one-third grown was taken on June 25th. Mr. 

 Brewster says of a female that was taken June 25th that it agrees 

 with striata in respect to the streaking in the upper parts, but it 

 would be unsafe to make it that form without material. {Grinnell.) 

 An adult male was taken at Hope, Cook inlet, Alaska, and a few 

 others were seen when we were there. The specimen taken shows 

 none of the characters attributed to Melospiza lincolnii striata. 

 (Osgood.) Seen at Log Cabin, June 15th, 1899; a female and a 

 nest of fresh eggs were taken near Lake Marsh, July 5th. The 

 nest was composed of coarse grass lined with fine grass and was 

 in a tuft of grass in a swamp, about four inches above the water. 

 The species was occasionally met with to Circle City on the 

 Yukon. (Bishop.) 



583a. Forbush Sparrow. 



Melospiza lincolnii striata Brewst. 1889. 



One seen near Victoria, Vancouver island, April 24th, 1893, and 

 another on May 5th; after which time they were more common; 

 observed a number in a marsh on Depot creek, Chilliwack lake. 

 B.C., July 24th, 1901; took one in a peat bog at Huntingdon on 

 the International Boundary on September 24th. (Spreadborough.) 

 Mount Lehman, lower Fraser valley; also Vancouver island. 

 (Streator.) Collected at Comox, Vancouver island, in September, 

 1888, by E. H. Forbush. (Fannin.) Tolerably common migrant 

 at Chilliwack; tolerably common breeder in the Cariboo district, 

 B.C.; one set of five eggs taken at 150-Mile House, July 3rd, 1901. 

 (Brooks.) Sitka, Alaska. (Grinnell.) Wrangel, Alaska. (Ander- 

 son.) 



All our museum specimens are placed with M. lincolnii, as we 

 cannot separate them from that species. (Macoun.) 



584. Swamp Sparrow. 



Melospiza georgiana (Lath.) Ridgw. 1885. 



Audubon, Vol. Ill, p. in, states it to be abundant in Labrador. 

 (Packard.) Not uncommon along the Humber river, Newfound- 

 land, 1889. (Louis H. Porter.) A common summer resident in 

 Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Nest found at Sydney, Cape Breton 

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