500 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
taken on the ground near a lake, each contained five eggs; common 
in the foothills, south of Calgary in 1897; first seen on April 25th, 
common by 29th, at Penticton south of Lake Okanagan, B.C. ; common 
from Lesser Slave lake to Peace River Landing, lat. 56° 15’, June, 
1903; common on the damp grass land from Edmonton to Jasper 
House, also in the MacLennan River valley, B.C., in 1898 ; this 
species was taken at Banff, in the Rocky mountains, in 1891, and 
in other years at Revelstoke, mouth of Salmon river, Fernie, Midway, 
Similkameen river, Penticton, Douglas, Agassiz and Huntingdon, 
B.C.; also at Victoria, Vancouver island and very abundant along 
the beach at Clayoquot Sound in September and October, 1907. 
(Spreadborough.) This is a common species from the Saskatchewan 
northward to the ‘‘barren grounds.’ (Rzchardson.) Not uncommon, 
but in summer only, and breeding here on the prairie at Prince 
Albert, Sask. (Coubeaux.) Common down the Mackenzie river 
to its mouth. (Ross.) Very abundant in marshy and sparsely 
wooded tracts or plains near Fort Anderson and on the lower river, 
seeing that ‘upwards of 200 nests with eggs” were collected in 
that quarter. They were all placed on the ground and composed 
of dry stems of grasses lined with finer materials of the same. 
Sometimes the nests are lined with a few feathers and deer hair. 
The number of eggs in a nest was four or five. (Macfarlane.) 
Common about the prairies and open places. (Lord.) Abundant 
summer resident on the coast. (Streator.) Summer resident on 
the coast. (Fannin.) An abundant summer resident at Chilliwack, 
an occasional bird remaining all winter. (Brooks.) This form 
breeds in all localities in British Columbia from the Rocky mountains 
to the coast, including the islands, from the sea level to 5,000 feet. 
(Rhoads.) Sumas prairie, Lulu island and English bay, B.C.; 
common at those localities. (E. F.G. White.) Next to the Lapland 
longspur this bird is the most abundant of the sparrow tribe through- 
out the Behring sea coast region of Alaska, and it extends thence 
north to the Arctic shores of the territory. (Nelson.) This species 
was not obtained at the Aleutian islands, but at St. Michael it was as 
common as the other species. (Turner.) The western Savanna 
sparrow was fairly numerous in the vicinity of Cape Blossom, 
Kotzebue sound. The grassy meadows bordering lagoons seemed 
to be its most congenial haunt, although I met with a few on the 
hillsides towards the interior of the peninsula; young were half- 
