CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 469 
towards the interior of the peninsula; young were half-fledged 
by July roth. (Gvimnell.) Six breeding specimens taken between 
June Ist and July 27th, and three in winter plumage, illustrate 
this species as seen at Point Barrow, Alaska. (Witmer Stone.) 
A few were seen and four specimens taken at Hope and Tyonek, 
Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, September, 1909. (Osgood.) I saw several 
Savanna sparrows in the marshes at Chilkat Inlet, June Ist, 1899, 
and took individuals at Haine’s Mission and at Skagway and 
others at Glacier, Alaska; several pairs were seen at Log Cabin 
on Lake Bennett, at Cariboo Crossing and on an island in Lake 
Tagish, B.C.; later they were seen on Lake Marsh, Lat. 60° 15’, in 
the Yukon district; after this none was seen until we reached 
the Alaska boundary, after this they were found at Circle City, 
Charlie Village and at the Aphoon, mouth of the Yukon, and at 
St. Michael. (Szshop.) From June to September of Igo! eight 
specimens in all were seen at Homer and Sheep Creek near the 
Kenai Mountains, Alaska. Found breeding on the low sandy 
spit at Homer. Its nest was well concealed in coarse grass. It 
was entirely covered and the entrance to the three nests examined 
was on the southern side. (Chapman.) 
BreEpING Notes.—A large suite of specimens was taken, a part 
of it, however, unintentionally, for it is not an easy matter to 
always distinguish between the Savanna sparrow and Baird’s 
bunting at gunshot range; and when I have killed a bird I gener- 
ally make a point of preserving it, even though it is not particu- 
larly wanted as a specimen in order that its life may not have 
been taken in vain. The nest is placed on the ground, simply 
built of dried grasses with a lining of horse hair; the eggs are 
four or five in number, in this locality usually laid in the first 
half of June. Like nearly all the fringilline birds of this region 
the Savanna sparrow is frequently the cow-bird’s foster-parent, 
and in one instance that came under my observation, the nest 
contained two of the alien eggs. (Cowes.) On June 18th, 1882, 
within a few feet of a straw-stack in the barnyard, where horses 
and cattle are continually running about, I found the nest of a 
Savanna sparrow, protected only by a tuft of prairie grass. It 
contained five eggs, and was composed of grass with a meagre 
lining of horse-hair, the whole being slightly sunk in the ground. 
(Thompson-Seton.) This is a very abundant species in Assiniboia 
and Alberta. Set of eggs usually four. Always breeds near 
