CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 549 
An abundant migrant in Manitoba. (Atkinson.) A not very 
common migrant in Manitoba; breeding at Duck mountain in 
the northern part of the province. Nests north to the edge 
of the woods, one noted at Last woods on Artillery lake, August 
5th, 1907 ; also observed at Pike portage, east end of Great 
Slave lake. (FE. T. Seton.) A not very common migrant in 
northern Saskatchewan. (Coubeaux.) First noticed on the after- 
noon of July roth, when its beautiful song was heard in the willow 
thickets, bordering Hayes river, a few miles above York Factory. 
While at York Factory we found fox sparrows fairly common in 
willow thickets, and took a pair, July 16th. (Preble.) Found near 
Red Deer, Alta., in full song, June, 1906. (W. E. Saunders.) This 
handsome species breeds in the wooded districts of the Northwest 
Territories up to the sixty-eight parallel of latitude; it constructs its 
nest in a low bush, of dry grass, hair and feathers. (Rzchardson.) 
North to Lapierre House on the Mackenzie river; common. (Ross.) 
Saw one, April 19th, 1897, at Edmonton, Alta.; saw individuals up 
to June 1st, a few pairs doubtless breed here; observed two indi- 
viduals near Edmonton, June 7th, 1898; common from Lesser Slave 
lake’ to Peace River Landing, lat. 56° 15’, June,’ 1903: (Spread- 
borough.) Not rare at Fort McMurray at the confluence of the 
Clearwater river and the Athabaska, lat. 56° 40’; one bird and nest 
seen on Methye Portage, eggs not hatched, July 18th, 1888. (J. M. 
Macoun.) 
I did not discover the presence of the fox sparrow at Cape Blossom 
Kotzebue sound, until the evening of July 31st, 1898; fox sparrows 
were seen or heard all along the lower course of the Kowak, and at 
our winter camp they were quite common up to August 23rd, when 
they abruptly disappeared. (Grinnell.) A wave of sparrows 
occurred at Circle City, Alaska, August 19th, 1899, and one indi- 
vidual was indentified as being of this species. (Bishop.) Along 
the coast of Norton sound this bird is an abundant summer resident, 
sharing with the tree sparrows the bushy shelter of the alder thickets 
on the hillsides and sheltered ravines. (Nelson.) The fox sparrow 
arrives at St. Michael by the 8th June; breeds here in the thickets 
of alder around the edges of the small lakes. (Turner.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—This bird is very common on the Magdalen 
islands where I found four nests in June, 1897; all except one con- 
