252 ANIMALS AND BIRDS COLLECTED 



Brochet, September 2. Plentiful north of Fort 

 Du Brochet on October 18, 19 ; birds migrating. 



Very large flocks about on October 23 : recorded 

 still plentiful October 26 ; noted October 29. 

 Three observed south of Cumberland Lake, 

 January 11, and noted that those the first 

 observed since leaving the Far North. 



[LAPLAND LONGSPUR (Calcarius lapponicus lap- 

 ponicus)]. Observed single specimen south end 

 lie a la Crosse Lake, May 22. Large numbers of 

 Longspurs passing in migration ; Lapland, only 

 species certainly identified, Fort Du Brochet, 

 September 18. 



[CHESTNUT- COLLARED LONGSPUR (Calcarius or- 

 natus)]. Observed Crooked Lake, May 12. 



SAVANNAH SPARROW (Passerculus sandwichensis 

 subsp.). Three specimens : one from Lake lie a 

 la Crosse, May 27 ; an adult male from Fort Du 

 Brochet, July 17 ; and a juvenile female, Cochrane 

 River, July 28. These are very dark birds, much 

 more so than alaudinus should be, and very 

 different from the light race that breeds in Southern 

 Saskatchewan, which is no doubt nevadensis. 



Observed east shore lie a la Crosse Lake, 

 May 30. Observed at Stanley Mission on the 

 Churchill River, June 23. One taken from talons 

 of Pigeon Hawk on Du Brochet Lake, August 7. 

 Observed during autumn migration at Fort 

 Du Brochet, September 18. 



LECONTE'S SPARROW (Passerherbulus lecontei). 

 Two specimens : one of a pair, Churchill River, 

 June 2 ; a male, Haultain River, June 6 ; " birds 

 breeding here." 



HARRIS'S SPARROW (Zonotrichia querula). 



