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nests in bushes or on the middle branches of large trees at Ottawa. 

 The nest is composed of rootlets and lined with hair. (Garneau.) 



660a. Western Chipping Sparrow. 



Spizella socialis arizoruB Coues. 1872. 



This species found to be common at Banff and breeding 

 in the summer of 1891 ; not uncommon at Revelstoke and in 

 Eagle pass in May, 1890; further down the Columbia river at 

 Deer park and Robson it was quite common and seemed to increase 

 to the south; quite common at Kamloops and Spence Bridge 

 in 1889; common at Elko, B.C., in May 1904, breeding by May 

 24; common in 1905 through the whole country between Midway 

 and Chilliwack lake; observed several individuals at Chilliwack, 

 B.C., in the spring of 1901 ; a few seen at Penticton in April, 1903; 

 first seen at Victoria, Vancouver island, April 26th, 1893, quite 

 common by May 9th; an abundant summer resident at Victoria, 

 Nanaimo and Comox. (Spreadborough.) Regular summer visitor 

 in British Columbia. (Lord.) Found only in the interior, where 

 it breeds abundantly. (Streator.) An abundant summer resident 

 east and west of the Coast range ; breeds in the neighbour- 

 hood of Victoria. (Fannin.) Common summer resident at Chilli- 

 wack. (Brooks.) Six skins taken at Ashcroft, B.C., are considered 

 intermediate between this and the eastern form. (Rhoads.) 



Breeding Notes. — Common summer resident near the Inter- 

 national Boundary at Trail, B.C. ; found a nest and three eggs June 

 5th, 1902, in a small bush about 18 inches from the ground, made 

 of dried grass and hned with hair. (Spreadborough.) We found 

 this species daily from Log Cabin on the White pass to Dawson on 

 the Yukon, lat. 64° 15', between June 15th and August ist, 1899. 

 We found a nest with four eggs at Lake Bennett, June 24th. Large 

 young in a nest on Tagish lake, June 30th. Young able to fly were 

 met with at Marsh lake, July 5th, and a set of three eggs on Thirty- 

 mile river, July i8th. The nests were in small spruces, one, four 

 inches, the other three feet from the ground. Gambel's sparrow, 

 slate-coloured junco and this species are, in point of numbers, the 

 commonest sparrows on the Yukon river. (Bishop.) 



