CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS 501 
fledged by July 10th. (Grinnell.) Six breeding specimens taken 
between June 1st and July 27th, and three in winter plumage, illus- 
trate this species as seen at Point Barrow, Alaska. (Witmer Stone.) 
A few were seen and four specimens taken at Hope and Tyonek, 
Cook inlet, Alaska, September, 1900. (Osgood.) I saw several 
Savanna sparrows in the marshes at Chilkat inlet, June rst, 1899, 
and took individuals at Haine Mission and at Skagway and others at 
Glacier, Alaska; several pairs were seen at Log Cabin on Lake 
Bennett, at Cariboo Crossing and on an island in Lake Tagish, B.C. ; 
later they were seen on Lake Marsh, lat. 60° 15’, in the Yukon district ; 
then after this none was seen until we reached the Alaska boundary, 
they were found at Circle City, Charlie Village and at the Aphoon, 
mouth of the Yukon, and at St. Michael. (Bishop.) From June 
to September of 1901, eight specimens in all were seen at Homer 
and Sheep creek near the Kenai mountains, Alaska. Found breeding 
on the low sandy spit at Homer. Its nest was well concealed in 
coarse grass. It was entirely covered and the entrance to the three 
nests examined was on the southern side. (Figgins.) Nineteen 
specimens were taken in 1903 at Seldovia and Sheep creek, Alaska. 
(Anderson.) 
BREEDING Notes.—A large suite of specimens was taken, a part 
of it, however, unintentionally, for it is not an easy matter to always 
distinguish between the Savanna sparrow and Baird’s bunting at 
gunshot range, and when I have killed a bird I generally make a 
point of preserving it, even though it is not particularly wanted as a 
specimen in order that its life may not have been taken in vain. 
The nest is placed on the ground, simply built of dried grasses with a 
lining of horse hair; the eggs are four or five in number, in this 
locality usually laid in the first half of June. Like nearly all the 
fringilline birds of this region the Savanna sparrow is frequently 
the cow-bird’s foster-parent, and in one instance that came under 
my observation, the nest contained two of the alien eggs. (Couwes.) 
On June 18th, 1882, within a few feet of a straw-stack in the barn- 
yard, where horses and cattle are continually running about, I 
found the nest of a Savanna sparrow, protected only by a tuft of 
prairie grass. It contained five eggs, and was composed of grass 
with a meagre lining of horse-hair, the whole being slightly sunk in 
the ground. (E. T. Seton.) This is a very abundant species in 
Saskatchewan and Alberta. Set of eggs usually four. Always 
