484 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
tains there. (Osgood.) This sparrow was found on the heights 
above Glacier near Skagway and was common at White Pass 
summit and continued to Portage, B.C. A nest almost finished 
was found ina conifer at Summit Lake, June 12th. (Bzshop.) 
Seen at Kenai Mountains and at Homer, Alaska. Was not seen 
until late summer at Homer when it became verycommon. (Chaf- 
man.) The last of May, from the 25th to the 30th, it arrives in 
the vicinity of St. Michael,and breeds sparingly along the Behring 
Sea coast of the territory, and more rarely on the shores of 
Kotzebue Sound. From the peninsula of Alaska south to Puget 
Sound it is a common summer resident; its range extends beyond 
the Arctic Circle. (WVelson.) A pair of these birds was shot in 
June, 1876, on the western end of Whale Island, near St.Michael; 
they are not common in the interior. (Zurner.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Four ; three taken at Victoria, Vancouver Island in April 1893; 
one taken at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 24th, 1889, all 
by Mr. Spreadborough. 
558. White-throated Sparrow. 
Zonotrichia albicollis (GMEL.) SWAINS, 1837. 
Reported by Stearns as common and breeding in southern 
Labrador; Audubon states that this species is common, and that 
they saw young late in July; Drexler obtained this species at 
Moose Factory on May 31st, 1860; Verrill reports this species as 
far the most common singing bird on Anticosti. (Packard.) Two 
specimens taken at Chateau Bay, Labrador, July 14th, 18o1. 
(Vorton.) A common summer migrant in Newfoundland. (Reefs.) 
Fairly common along the Humber River, Newfoundland, 1899. 
(Louis H. Porter.) 
An abundant summer resident in Nova Scotia. (Dowzns.) 
Not uncommon on Sable Island in the spring and autumn of 1902. 
(James Bouteillier.. Common at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape 
Breton Island, N.S., July, 1898; not uncommon at Brackley 
Beach, Prince Edward Island, nests taken June, 1888. (JMacoun.) 
This bird so characteristic of the Canadian fauna, is less abundant 
than the ubiquitous juncos, but on account of its loud and striking 
song is far better known to the average inhabitant of Prince 
