534 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 
in half a day’s hunt; this species was not noted further down the 
Kowak than near the mouth of the Squirrel river, where a pair was 
seen on June 8th. (Grinnell.) Common at Hope, on Cook inlet, 
Alaska, in August, 1900. (Osgood.) Five specimens were taken on 
the Kenai mountains and at Homer, Alaska, in August and Sep- 
tember, 1901; the breeding ground of this junco was in extensive 
alder patches just above timber line; they were quite common and 
were found in all such localities visited. (Figgims.) From Log 
Cabin on the White pass, to Circle City in Alaska, this bird occurs 
everywhere. The slate-coloured sparrow, Gambel’s sparrow and the 
western chipping sparrow were most common about heaps of brush 
left by lumbermen, weed-grown clearings resulting from forest fires 
and cabins of the towns. Every nest was sunk in the ground to 
the rim in an open place under a weed or tussock of grass. One 
contained a few dark hairs, besides the usual fine grass lining. 
(Bishop.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—The nesting season of this species in New 
Brunswick is May and June. From three to five eggs are laid in 
a well-concealed nest placed on the ground, under the protection of 
a rock, sod, root or log. The nest is composed of grass stems lined 
with hair. One nest was found made entirely of hair taken from a 
piece of cariboo skin. (W.H. Moore.) One nest found on Chelsea 
mountain, nine miles from Ottawa, on May 12th, 1903, and another 
taken on Montreal mountain on June 3rd, 1903, were in holes in the 
ground; each nest was made of grass and hair and each contained 
four eggs, and measured 4 x 2 and 2.50 x 1.50 inches. (Garneau.) 
Not a common summer resident at Ottawa. Nest in a low bush or 
on the ground, composed of strips of bark, rootlets and hairs, lined 
with moss and hair; eggs 4 or 5, greenish-white, spotted and blotched 
with reddish-brown. (G. R. White.) Found a nest, June 3, 1903, 
at Missinabi, Ont.; it was under a clump of grass and made of grass 
lined with fine dried grass. (Spreadborough.) 
567a. Oregon Junco. 
Junco oreganus (TOwns.) RIDGW. 1g0lI. 
An abundant resident west of the Coast range. (Fannin.) Abun- 
dant resident at Chilliwack, B.C. (Brooks.) Very abundant in the 
Fraser valley below Yale in May, 1889; common during the whole 
