CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 525 
nests in bushes or on the middle branches of large trees at Ottawa. 
The nest is composed of rootlets and lined with hair. (Garneauw.) 
560a. Western Chipping Sparrow. 
Spizella socialis arizone COUES. 1872. 
This species found to be common at Banff and _ breeding 
in the summer of 1891 ; not uncommon at Revelstoke and in 
Eagle pass in May, 1890; further down the Columbia river at 
Deer park and Robson it was quite common and seemed to increase 
to the south; quite common at Kamloops and Spence Bridge 
in 1889; common at Elko, B.C., in May 1904, breeding by May 
24;common in 1905 through the whole country between Midway 
and Chilliwack lake; observed several individuals at Chilliwack, 
B.C., in the spring of 1901; a few seen at Penticton in April, 1903; 
first seen at Victoria, Vancouver island, April 26th, 1893, quite 
common by May goth; an abundant summer resident at Victoria, 
Nanaimo and Comox. (Spreadborough.) Regular summer visitor 
in British Columbia. (Lord.) Found only in the interior, where 
it breeds abundantly. (Streator.) An abundant summer resident 
east and west of the Coast range ; breeds in the neighbour- 
hood of Victoria. (Fannin.) Common summer resident at Chilli- 
wack. (Brooks.) Six skins taken at Ashcroft, B.C., are considered 
intermediate between this and the eastern form. (Rhoads.) 
BREEDING NoTEs.—Common summer resident near the Inter- 
national Boundary at Trail, B.C.; found a nest and three eggs June 
5th, 1902, in a small bush about 18 inches from the ground, made 
of dried grass and lined with hair. (Spreadborough.) We found 
this species daily from Log Cabin on the White pass to Dawson on 
the Yukon, lat. 64° 15’, between-June 15th and August Ist, 1899. 
We found a nest with four eggs at Lake Bennett, June 24th. Large 
young in a nest on Tagish lake, June 30th. Young able to fly were 
met with at Marsh lake, July 5th, and a set of three eggs on Thirty- 
mile river, July 18th. The nests were in small spruces, one, four 
inches, the other three feet from the ground. Gambel’s sparrow, 
slate-coloured junco and this species are, in point of numbers, the 
commonest sparrows on the Yukon river. (Bzishop.) 
