CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 503 
BREEDING NoTEs.—I found a nest and four eggs of this bird as 
I was riding over the prairie near Crescent lake, Sask., on June 
3rd, 1901. On June 6th, while driving to Saltcoats marshes we 
flushed another Baird’s sparrow off its nest containing five ex- 
ceedingly handsome eggs. Nest on the ground at the side of the 
trail. June 7th I found another nest and five eggs, nest, like the 
other, made of dried grass, lined with hair, built on the ground 
in short grass. The eggs are like well blotched eggs of the vesper 
sparrow but are much smaller and averaging .75 x .55 inches. 
(W. Ravine.) 
CCXXIII. COTURNICULUS Bonaparte. 1838. 
546. Grasshopper Sparrow. 
Coturniculus savannarum passerinus (WILs.) Ripcw. 1885. 
Said to occur in New Brunswick by Mr. Adams. (Chamberlain.) 
Ifam quite sure this species is at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B..,. 
but have not secured a specimen. (W.H. Moore.) 
There are two Toronto records, one in 1879, and the second in 
1890. (J. H. Fleming.) Fairly common in the two southwestern 
counties of Ontario; increasing steadily in numbers in the London 
district. I now meet it every year and sometimes locate five or six 
pairs in a single season though I have not yet founda nest. (W. E. 
Saunders.) 
546a. Western Grasshopper Sparrow. 
Corturniculus savannarum bimaculatus (SWAINS.) RIDGW. IgoI. 
A summer resident near Vernon, B.C. (Brooks.) 
CCXXIV. AMMODRAMUS Swainson. 1827. 
547. Henslow Sparrow. 
Ammodramus henslowit (Aup.) GRAY. 1849. 
Thus far we have found this bird only near Sarnia, and at Jean- 
nette creek, Ont., but as about a dozen birds were observed alto- 
gether on four different occasions in two years I believe it is a fairly 
common summer resident in the western peninsula of Ontario 
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