468 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
day they were common ; two nests were 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 2gth 
at Penticton south of Lake Okanagan, B.C.; common from Lesser 
Slave Lake to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15’, June, 1903; com- 
mon ‘on the damp grass land from Edmonton to Jasper House,also 
in the MacLennan River valley,B.C.,in 1898; one of the commonest 
species from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. This 
species was taken at Banff, in the Rocky Mountains, in 1891, and 
at Revelstoke, mouth of Salmon River, Agassiz and Huntington, 
B.C.; also at Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Spreadborough.) This 
is'a common species from the Saskatchewan northward to the 
“barren grounds.” (Aichardson.) 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 with eggs” were collected in 
that quarter. They were all placed on the ground and com- 
posed 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. (Zord.) Abundant 
summer resident on the coast. (S¢veator.) Summer resident on 
the coast. (Fannin.) An abundant summer resident at Chilliwack, 
an occasional bird remaining all winter. (Bvooks.) 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. (A/oads.) Sumas prairie, Lulu Island and English 
Bay, B.C. ; common at those localities. (£. &. G. White.) Next 
to the Lapland longspur this bird is the most abundant of the 
sparrow tribe throughout the Behring Sea coast region of 
Alaska, and it extends thence north to the Arctic shores of the 
territory. (JVelson.) This species was not obtained at the 
Aleutian Islands, but at St. Michael it was as common as the 
other species. (Zurner.) 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 
