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have not secured a specimen as yet, but I believe I have come 

 across them on various occasions. {Wintle.) 



In each of the years 1888, 1889 and 1890 at least one individual 

 of this species has been observed several times through the summer. 

 {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Quite a number of field sparrows were 

 noted at Eganville, Renfrew co., Ont., Oct, 12th, 1906. A few 

 days previously Mr. E. White saw one or more near Ottawa. (Rev. 

 G. Eifrig.) Not common in eastern Ontario. {Rev. C. J. Young.) 

 Summer resident at Toronto, Ont ; sometimes abundant; Mr. Kay 

 took one specimen at Port Sydney, Muskoka district in the summer 

 of 1890. (/. H. Fleming). I have found this bird fairly plentiful 

 in suitable places around Toronto ; and have met with it as early as 

 April 12th. Took two on April 22nd, 1899. They usually haunt 

 waste ground in which occasional clusters of bushes are found. I 

 know of one spot of waste ground interspersed with small patches 

 of witch hazel and scrub oak, which is never without a few repre- 

 sentatives of this pretty little sparrow. Breeds here. Can easily 

 be identified at a considerable distance by its cinnamon-tipped 

 beak. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) Locally distributed, but generally 

 common near London, Ont. Easily found by its song, but not 

 conspicuous otherwise. It nests both on the ground and in small 

 shrubs one to four feet from the ground. In my trips to the Bruce 

 peninsula have seen but few of these birds; while at Kazabazua, 

 40 miles north of Ottawa, it has been fairly common at every visit. 

 Arrives at London about April 20th and departs about October 2nd. 

 There is probably a considerable area of the central part of western 

 Ontario from which this bird is absent. (W. E. Saunders.) 



Very rare summer resident, Red river settlement; breeding. 

 {D. Gunn.) Winnipeg ; summer resident ; tolerably common. 

 {Hine.) Have seen it west of Winnipeg. {R. H. Hunter.) Qu'- 

 Appelle; common summer resident; breeds; arrives about April 

 15th. {Guernsey.) All the above references are taken from E. T. 

 Seton's "Birds of Manitoba" and it may be noted that none are 

 his own observations. My opinion from many years' observation 

 and correlation of other statements is that nearly all, if not all the 

 above references are erroneous, and that they apply to the clay- 

 coloured sparrow {Spizella pallida) which we know is abundant, at 

 least in western Manitoba. The latter, though abundant, was not 

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