450 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
chiefly west of the coast range; breeds both on Vancouver and 
the mainland. (Fannin.) Common summer resident at Chilliwack, 
B.C. (Brooks.) Very common at Hastings, Port Heney and Agas- 
siz, B.C., in April, 1889; very abundant at Chilliwack and Hunting- 
don, B.C., feeding on the seeds of the crab-apple, in the autumn 
of 1901; tolerably common near Victoria and quite common at 
Comox, Vancouver island, in June, 1893. (Spreadborough.) Found 
breeding on the coast of British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 
518. Cassin Purple Finch. 
Carpodacus cassint BAIRD. 1854. 
Western States, from the eastern base of the Rocky mountains 
to the Pacific coast, and north to British Columbia. (Ridgway.) 
A few examples, probably of this species, were found breeding in 
the interior of British Columbia. (Rhoads.) Both sides of Coast 
range, B.C. (Fannin.) Summer resident at Soda creek, and pro- 
bably also at Quesnel, B.C., 1901. (Brooks.) Taken at Spence 
Bridge and Kamloops in June, 1889; one specimen seen at Trail, 
B.C., near the International Boundary, in May, 1902; common 
everywhere in coniferous woods at Fernie and Elko, B.C., in May, 
1904; quite common at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903, feeding in 
the tops of bull pine (Pinus ponderosa), on their seeds; saw one there 
June, 1905. (Spreadborough.) 
CCXI. PASSER Brisson. 
520. House Sparrow. 
Passer domesticus (LINN4#US) KocH. 1816. 
This species has become naturalized in all Canadian cities, towns 
and small villages and in many farm-yards, where it lives in winter 
in affluence on the oats found in the droppings of horses. It is 
quite abundant in the autumn, but whether it finds a scarcity of 
food or abundance it is always in evidence in spring, and where it 
once gets a foothold it retains it and spreads further. It is abun- 
dant everywhere in the eastern provinces, in the settled parts of 
Quebec and Ontario, and, although spoken against everywhere, it 
destroys an enormous quantity of noxious weeds in waste grounds 
and vacant places in cities and their suburbs, by eating their seeds, 
