494 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
made of dried grass and lined with hair. (Spreadborough.) We 
found this species daily from Log Cabin on the White Pass to 
Dawson on the Yukon, Lat. 64° 15’, between June 15th and August 
Ist, 1899. We found a nest with four eggs at Lake Bennett, June 
24th. Large young in a nest on Tagish Lake, June 30th. Young 
able to fly were met with at Marsh Lake, “July 5th, and a set of 
three eggs on Thirty-mile River, July 18th. The nests were in 
small spruces, one, fourinches, the other three feet from the 
ground. Gambel’s sparrow, slate-coloured junco and this species 
are, in point of numbers, the commonest sparrows on the Yukon 
River. (Lzshop.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seventeen ; one taken at Canmore, Alta., May 25th, 1891; one at 
Revelstoke, B.C., May 7th, 1890; one at Deer Park, Columbia 
River, B.C., June 6th, 1890; six at Trail, near the International 
Boundary, B.C., in May, 1902; one at Spence’s Bridge, B.C., 
May 29th, 1889; one at Agassiz, B.C., May gth, 1889, one at Hast- 
ings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 23rd, 1889; four at Victoria, Van- 
couver Island, in May, 1893, and one at Penticton, B.C., April, 
1903, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 
561. Clay-Coloured Sparrow. 
Spisella pallida (SwWAINS.) BONAP. 1838. 
On May oth, 1894, while hunting in a field of small shrubs about 
15 miles west of London, Ont., I saw a small sparrow sitting on 
the top twig of a shrub, after the manner of the field sparrow and 
saw him give a note whose author I was looking for. It proved 
to be a Spizella pallida, the first recorded, I believe, in our prov- 
ince, though they may yet be found inhabiting the northwestern 
extremity, next to Manitoba. -(W. &. Saunders.) The western 
meadow lark, Brewer’s blackbird and the present species were the 
chief birds I observed at Pembina to indicate an avi-fauna in any 
wise different from that of the eastern province at large, and two 
of these cannot be considered very strong marks since they both 
occur some distance further eastward. (Cowes.) Very abundant 
summer resident in Manitoba on scrubby prairies and half open 
lowlands. This small sparrow arrives in flocks about the 12th 
May. Its small size and pale-ashy hue will generally identify it 
as it rambles over the scrubby part of the prairie. (Zhompson- 
