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were taken at Muller and one at Seldovia, Alaska. (Anderson.) 

 The last of May, from the 25th to the 39th, it arrives in the vicinity 

 of St. Michael, and breeds sparingly along the Behring sea coast 

 of the territory, and more rarely on the shores of Kotzebue sound. 

 From the peninsula of Alaska south to Puget sound it is a common 

 resident; its range extends beyond the Arctic Circle. (Nelson.) A 

 pair of these birds was shot in June, 1876, on the western end of 

 Whale island, near St. Michael ; they are not common in the interior. 

 (Turner.) 



558. White-throated Sparrow. 



Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmel.) Swains. 1837. 



Reported by Stearns as common and breeding in southern Labra- 

 dor; Audubon states that this species is common, and that they 

 saw young late in July; Drexler obtained this species at Moose 

 Factory on May 31st, i86o;Verrill reports this species as far the 

 most common singing bird on Anticosti. (Packard.) Two speci- 

 mens taken at Chateau bay, Labrador, July 14th, 1891. (Norton.) 

 A common summer migrant in Newfoundland. (Reeks.) . Fairly 

 common along the Humber river, Newfoundland, 1899. (Louis H. 

 Porter.) 



An abundant summer resident in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Not 

 uncommon on Sable island in the spring and autumn of 1902; 

 several seen May 13, 1904, one May 3, 1905; several came in a 

 northwest gale, September 30, 1905 ; seen in numbers May 10 and 

 20 and September 23, 1906; several seen April i, one September 26 

 and others October 24, 1907. (/. Boutelier.) Common at Bad- 

 deck and Margaree, Cape Breton island, N.S., July, 1898; not un- 

 common at Bracldey Beach, Prince Edward island, nests taken 

 June, 1888. (Macoun.) This bird, so characteristic of the Cana- 

 dian fauna, is less abundant than the ubiquitous juncos, but on 

 account of its loud and striking song is far better known to the 

 average inhabitant of Prince Edward island. (Dwight.) Breeding 

 abundantly at Sydney, Cape Breton island. (C. R. Harte.) Com- 

 mon in Nova Scotia from May to October. (H. F. Tufts.) 



A common summer resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) 

 An abundant summer resident at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B- 



