444 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 27. 



Peace River Landing in June, 1903. He records also specimens from 

 Edmonton and Peace River Landing, Alberta. 



While collecting- at Edmonton, Alberta, in the early autumn of 

 1894, J. Alden Loring found the bird fairly common, and took speci- 

 mens on September 11, 17, and 18. In the early summer of 1896 he 

 reported it uncommon on the Jasper House trail, taking a specimen 

 about 25 miles northwest of Edmonton, May 25. In the early autumn 

 of the same year he found it rare and difficult to obtain along the 

 trail between Jasper House and Smoky River. 



Melospiza lincolni (Aud.). Lincoln Sparrow. 



This is the common song sparrow of the region. In 1901 it was 

 first noted near Poplar Point, on the lower Athabaska, where a male 

 in full song was observed May 16. A female was taken at Fort Chipe- 

 w van, May 23. The species was next noted at Fort Smith, where 

 numbers were seen, June 19 to 28, and three specimens were collected. 

 It was noted at Fort Resolution, July 5 and 9, and at Yellowknife 

 Bay, on the Northern Arm of Great Slave Lake, on July. 16. At 

 Trout Rock a nest containing four eggs was collected, together with 

 the female parent, July 17. It was placed on the ground in a patch 

 of thick grass near water. At Fort Rae the bird was noted almost 

 daily, July 19 to 29, and several specimens, including young not long 

 from the nest, Avere taken July 23 and 25. On our return trip a few 

 individuals were seen on the Athabaska, above Pelican Portage, 

 August 25. 



On May 13, 1903, we first observed this bird a few miles north of 

 Sturgeon River. We next noted it 50 miles below Athabaska Land- 

 ing, May 17, and observed it at Grand Rapid, May 21 and 22. We 

 did not again note it until June 17, when one was seen near Lime- 

 stone Point, on the lower Slave. We found it very common at Fort 

 Resolution during the latter part of June. During their trip to the 

 Mackenzie my brother and Cary noted it at Hay River, June 29, and 

 the following day found a nest containing five heavily incubated eggs. 

 The male bird was shot just after being flushed from the eggs, show- 

 ing that it assists in incubation. A few others were noted at Fort 

 Providence, July 6 and 7 ; at the mouth of Willow Lake River, June 

 19; and at Fort Wrigley, June 21 and 22. On their return trip they 

 noted an adult and two fledged young on the Athabaska, below Red 

 River, on August 6, and found it common along the river from Brule 

 Rapid to Athabaska Landing, August 18 to September 13, and near 

 the latter place up to September 23. They noted it also near Lily 

 Lake, September 24. During my trip northward from Fort Rae. 

 after the division of the party, I observed this sparrow on Grandin 



"Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, pp. .507-509, 1904. 



