CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 513 
Island, June 26th, 1888. (Macoun.) -Breedingin some abundance 
on both shores of the Gut of Canso, N.S. (Brewster.) A rare 
summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B.; taken in 1899 
at Fredericton where it undoubtedly breeds. (IV. Moore.) Taken 
at Beauport, near Quebec; an uncommon migrant. (Déonne.) 
A casual at Ottawa; a male of this species was shot, 16th 
May, 1884, near the east end of the city by Mr. G. R. White. 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Lhave met with this bird breeding in 
the county of Leeds, Ont. One set of eggs I found in April on 
the ground by a small pine, and once in aclearing in a small wood 
in the month of June. A few breed on the Magdalen Islands 
where the song sparrow seems to be very rare. (Rev. C.J. Young.) 
Apparently rare inthe Algonquin Park, Ont. Shot one at Cache 
Lake, July 1oth, 1900. Doubtless a few breed. (Spreadborough.) 
Reaching us about the middle of May, these bird are so secretive in 
their habits that it is very difficult to make an accurate calculation 
of their numbers but a careful observer will usually see a few 
specimens each season. They visit us here in Toronto on the 
southern trip about the middle of September. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 
Observed in large numbers during the latter part of September 
and beginning of October along the Mouse (Souris) River. 
(Coues.) A rare spring and winter migrant at Carberry, Man, 
(Thompson-Seton.) Rather common, July 13th to 16th, at York 
Factory where three specimens were collected. (4. A. Prebles.) 
Only noted asa spring migrant at Indian Head, Assa.; they were 
first seen May 13th, 1892, and left again ina few days. Only afew 
were observed at Old Wives’ Creek in 1895, but none were -seen on 
the prairie at any place; they were not rare and breeding in the 
bushes at Banff in 1891; first observed at Edmonton, Alta., on 
May 5th, 1897, on June Ist found a nest on the ground ina 
a bunch of grass, nest made of dried grass, eggs five, quite fresh; 
common in the foothills from Calgary southward to Crow’s Nest 
Pass; found a nest with four fresh eggs June 28th, nest same as 
first ; abundant from Edmonton to Lesser Slave Lake and Peace 
River Landing, Lat. 56° 15’, 1903 ; seen everywhere between 
Edmonton and Yellowhead Pass in low bushes in June, 1898; quite 
common at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and on the Columbia 
south to Robson, where they were seen again in 1902, they were 
breeding in low thickets ; common at Penticton, south of Lake 
Okanagan, B.C. on April 28th, 1903. (Spreadborough.) North to 
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