514 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
BREEDING Notes.—The following spring the arrival of Gambel’s 
sparrow, as indicated by its beautiful song, was in the evening of 
May 21st, and the species soon became common. The song is a 
clear sad strain of five syllables, and with rising inflection. In 
the Kowak delta on the 11th June, I obtained a set of six eggs in 
which incubation had commenced. The nest was sunk into a hum- 
mock of moss on the ground under some alder bushes on a hillside. 
A clump of dead grass partly concealed it from view. It consisted 
of dry grasses, lined with finer grass and black rootlets. The eggs 
are pale Nile blue, rather evenly covered with irregularly outlined 
spots of chocolate and vinaceous. They are ovate, and measure 
283 KiN632).. 81 K0162) 0, 86K O20 Shi K 40483 xe O2eande 76x oe 
the latter being a runt egg. (Grinnell.) 
The intermediate sparrow breeds in great numbers in the wooded 
sections of Anderson district. The nests were nearly always placed 
on the ground, in the tufts of tussocks of grass, clumps of Labrador 
tea (Ledum palustre) and amid stunted willows. They were com- 
posed of fine hay and lined with deer hair, occasionally mixed with 
a few feathers. Several were made entirely of the finer grasses. 
The usual number of eggs was four, but a lot contained as many as 
five and six. Upwards of one hundred nests were collected in the 
region referred to. (Macfarlane.) On June 13th, 1893, at Banff, 
Rocky mountains, I came across a nest and five eggs of this species, 
it was built at the side of a grassy mound and made of dried grass lined 
with hair. At Peel river, Arctic America, on June 2nd, 1898, Rev. 
C. E. Whittaker found a nest and four eggs built in a patch of moss 
on the ground. (W. Ravine.) 
5556. Nuttall Sparrow. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli RIDGWAY. 1899. 
Common about the prairie and open timbered spots. (Lord.) 
West of the Coast range, especially on the coast; this is the most 
abundant small bird in the neighbourhood of Victoria. (Fannzin.) 
Rare migrant at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) Taken at Agassiz and Yale 
in May, 1889; observed five at the mouth of Tami Hy creek, Chilli- 
wack valley; very abundant at Huntingdon, B.C., on September 
gth, 1901, feeding on thistle seed; common at Douglas, B.C., after 
April 25, 1906; first seen on April roth, at Victoria, but common by 
