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in half a day's hunt; this species was not noted further down the 

 Kowak than near the mouth of the Squirrel river, where a pair was 

 seen on June 8th. (Grinnell.) Common at Hope, on Cook inlet, 

 Alaska, in August, 1900. (Osgood.) Five specimens were taken on 

 the Kenai mountains and at Homer, Alaska, in August and Sep- 

 tember, 1 901; the breeding ground of this junco was in extensive 

 alder patches just above timber Hne; they were quite common and 

 were found in aU such locaUties visited. (Figgins.) From Log 

 Cabin on the White pass, to Circle City in Alaska, this bird occurs 

 everywhere. The slate-coloured sparrow, Gambel's sparrow and the 

 western chippiag sparrow were most common about heaps of brush 

 left by lumbermen, weed-grown clearings resulting from forest fires 

 and cabins of the towns. Every nest was sunk in the ground to 

 the rim in an open place under a weed or tussock of grass. One 

 contained a few dark hairs, besides the usual fine grass lining. 

 (Bishop.) 



BitEEDiNG Notes. — ^The nesting season of this species in New 

 Brunswick is May and June. From three to five eggs are laid in 

 a. well-concealed nest placed on the ground, under the protection of 

 a rock, sod, root or log. The nest is composed of grass stems lined 

 with hair. One nest was found made entirely of hair taken from a 

 piece of cariboo skin. (W. H. Moore.) One nest found on Chelsea 

 mountain, nine miles from Ottawa, on May 12th, 1903, and another 

 taken on Montreal mountain on June 3rd, 1903, were in holes in the 

 ground ; each nest was made of grass and hair and each contained 

 four eggs, and measured 4x2 and 2.50 x 1.50 inches. (Garneau.) 

 Not a common summer resident at Ottawa. Nest in a low bush or 

 on the ground, composed of strips of bark, rootlets and hairs, lined 

 with moss and hair; eggs 4 or 5, greenish-white, spotted and blotched 

 with reddish-brown. (G. R. White.) Found a nest, June 3, 1903, 

 at Missinabi, Ont. ; it was under a clump of grass and made of grass 

 lined with fine dried grass. (Spreadborough.) 



567o. Oregon Junco. 



Junco oreganus (Towns.) Ridgw. 1901. 



An abundant resident west of the Coast range. (Fannin.) Abun- 

 dant resident at ChiUiwack, B.C. (Brooks.) Very abundant in the 

 Fraser valley below Yale in May, 1889; common during the whole 



