478 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, where the birds were common. 
They frequent the scattered patches of dwarfed spruce that grow 
in the small valleys and ravines intersecting the extensive ex- 
panse of precipitous ledges along the Churchill River in the 
vicinity of the post. They undoubtedly nest among these spruces 
but no nests attributable to this species were found. Several were 
seen on our return on the upper Hayes River, near the Robinson 
Portage and at the Echimamish, Keewatin. (Prebles.) A fine 
series of specimens of this handsome and interesting bird was 
secured at our Mouse River Depot, during the latter half of 
September and beginning of October. Its breeding grounds are as 
yet unknown. (Cowes.) Abundant spring and fall migrant, frequent- 
ing thickets in Manitoba. (Zhompson-Seton.) Specimen shot at 
Fort Pelly, August 29th, 1881; in flocks 50 miles west of Brandon 
on the road to Fort Ellice, Man. (AZacoun.) Only three were seen 
at Indian Head, Assa., during three months residence in the spring 
of 1892, these were seen May 12th and 13th. (Spreadborough.) 1 
took two individuals at Sumas, B.C., oth January, 1895, and sawa 
third at Chilliwack, B.C. (Bvooks.) Taken at Cadboro Bay near 
Victoria by A. H. Maynard, October, 1894; and another individual 
shot at Comox, November, 1894, by W. B. Anderson. (Fannin.) 
BreepinG Notes.—I have pleasure in recording the first auth- 
entic nest and eggs of this species. On June 11th, 1901, at Cres- 
cent Lake, Assa., I was fortunate in finding the nest in the root 
of a small willow at the edge of a bluff. The nest was made of 
grass and fine bark, lined with dry grass. The eggs are unlike 
those of any other sparrow. They are large for sparrows, averag- 
ing *88 x ‘68 inches, and are creamy white, spotted chiefly at the 
larger end with rusty brown and lilac and have a high polish. . 
The parent bird was secured. Thisis the third species of sparrow 
found by me breeding in northwest Canada whose nest and eggs 
were previously unknown to science. (IV. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One specimen taken at Indian Head, Assa., May 12th, 1892, by 
Mr. Spreadborough. 
554. White-crowned Sparrow. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys (FoRST.) SWAINS. 1831. 
Seems to be confined to southern Greenland ; not numerous 
but certainly a breeding bird, though its nest has not yet been’ 
