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common the same day. From that day I heard their song in 
almost every clump of trees. A great number drew off to the 
northward, but a good many remained. They generally fre- 
quented the clumps of aspen trees and Norway pines, where the 
ground was covered with a thick growth of dry fine grass. As I 
saw no female nor evidence of nesting I gave the birds three 
weeks and started out to look for their nests on the 15th of June. 
Luckily I soon found a female off her nest and after an hour’s 
watching, during which time I suffered torments from the mos- 
quitoes, she at last dropped down to her nest. On walking up 
she fluttered out, and flew off some distance, returning shortly 
with two others of the same species, when I put her off and shot 
her. A hundred yards further on I came across another female, 
probably one of the two that returned with the first one. I took 
up a good position and waited twenty minutes, when she darted 
down to the ground and disappeared, I went up and was just 
going to kill her with my little *38 caliber collecting pistol as she 
fluttered off, when out of the tail of my eye I saw the nest con- 
tained newly hatched young; I found another nest the same day 
by carefully quartering a likely piece of ground, and found several 
the next week with young also. The nests were always on the 
ground, sometimes at the foot of a small service-berry bush or 
twig. They were all arched over by the dry fine grass of the 
preceding year; this year’s growth having just well commenced. 
The nest is small and loosely constructed, being quite flat; it is 
composed outwardly of a few leaves, a little moss and a good 
deal of fine grass, lined only with the Jatter material. The nest 
was situated on the ground in, and arched over with, dry grass, and 
no bush or twigs were near. (J. Parker Norris, Jr., in The Auk, 
Vol. XIX, 88.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eight; two taken at Indian Head, Assa., May, 1892, two at 
Medicine Hat, Assa., May, 1894, two at Banff, Rocky Mountains, 
in June, 1891, and one at Edmonton, Alta., May 22nd, 1897, all 
by Mr. W. Spreadborough; one taken at Athabasca Landing, 
Alta., in May, 1888, by Mr. J. M. Macoun. 
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