CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 497 



542. Sandwrieh Sparrow. 



Passerculus sandwichensis (Gmel.) Baird. 1858. 



Common about the prairies and open timbered lands. {Lord.) 

 Common on the coast in the fall. (Streator.) An abundant summer 

 resident west of Coast range ; breeds on Vancouver island. {Fannin.) 

 Tolerably common migrant at Chilliwack. {Brooks.) A few speci- 

 mens taken at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1901; taken at 

 Hastings, April, 1889; first seen near Victoria, Vancouver island, 

 about April 20th, 1893, by May 4th they were common. {Spread- 

 borough.) One seen on April 23rd, 1887, at Victoria; abundant the 

 next day ; common along the sea coast at Salt Spring island, Nanaimo 

 and Comox. {Macoun.) 



A few were seen on Unalaska island, October 5th, 1899, and two 

 young secured. {Bishop.) This species occurs during the summer 

 .along the entire Aleutian chain and on the island of Kadiak, in 

 ' addition to the southeastern shore of the territory. Dall cites it 

 from Unalaska where he found it numerous, as he did also to the 

 ■eastward, but he did not find it to the west of that island. {Nelson.) 

 This species is one of the earliest arrivals at Unalaska, usually about 

 the loth of May. They breed in June in the grass. {Turner.) On 

 June 3rd, 1890, in a grassy patch near Lukannin beach, on St. Paul 

 island, I several times flushed a sparrow which I identified as this 

 species. {Palmer.) Five specimens were taken on Amagnak island, 

 near Dutch harbour, Unalaska, in September, 1897. {Grinnell.) 

 Anderson took ten specimens at Muller bay, Alaska peninsula, in 

 1903. {Chapman.) 



Breeding Notes. — On June loth, 1893, at Vancouver, B.C., 

 found a nest and five eggs of this bird. The nest was built on the 

 ground, made of dried grass and lined with hair. The eggs are 

 greenish-white, heavily blotched and spotted with light brown and 

 lilac; size .74 by .54 inches. {W. Raine.) 



.542a. Savanna Sparrow. 



Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (WiLS.) Ridgw. 1880. 



Common throughout eastern Labrador; breeds at the mouth of 

 the Koaksoak river and at Davis inlet. {Packard.) Tolerably com- 

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