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day they were common ; two nests were taken on the ground 

 near a lake; each contained five eggs ; common in the foothills, 

 south of Calgary in 1897; ^''st seen on April 25th, common 29th 

 at Penticton south of Lake Okanagan, B.C.; common from Lesser 

 Slave Lake to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15', June, 1903; com- 

 mon on the damp grass land from Edmonton to Jasper House,also 

 in the MacLennan River valley,B.C., in 1898; one of the commonest 

 species from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. This 

 species was taken at Banff, in the Rocky Mountains, in 1891, and 

 at Revelstoke, mouth of Salmon River, Agassiz and Huntington, 

 B.C.; also at Victoria, Vancouver Island. {Spreadborougk.) This 

 is a common species from the Saskatchewan northward to the 

 " barren grounds." {Richardson.) Not uncommon, but in summer 

 only, and breeding here on the prairie at Prince Albert, Sask. 

 {Coubeaux.) Common down the Mackenzie River to its mouth. 

 {Ross.) Very abundant in marshy and sparsely wooded tracts 

 or plains near Fort Anderson and on the lower river, seeing 

 that " upwards of 200 nests with eggs " were collected in 

 that quarter. They were all placed on the ground and com- 

 posed of dry stems of grasses lined with finer materials of the 

 same. Sometimes the nests are lined with a few fealthers and 

 deer hair. The number of eggs in' a nest was four or five. 

 {Macfarlane.) 



Common about the prairies and open places. {Lord.) Abundant 

 summer resident on the coast. {i:treator.) Summer resident on 

 the coast. {Fannin.) An abundant summer resident at Chilliwack, 

 an occasional bird remaining all winter. {Brooks.) This form 

 breeds in all localities in British Columbia from the R,ocky 

 Mountains to the coast, including the islands, from the sea level 

 to 5,000 feet. {Rkoads.) Sumas prairie, Liilu Island and English 

 Bay, B.C. ; common at those localities. {E. F. G. White.) Next 

 to the Lapland longspur this bird is the most abundant of the 

 sparrow tribe throughout the Behring Sea coast region of 

 Alaska, and it extends thence north to the Arctic shores of the 

 territory. {Nelson.) This species was not obtained at the 

 Aleutian Islands, but at St. Michael it was as common as the 

 other species. {Turner.) The western Savanna sparrow was 

 fairly numerous in the vicinity of Cape Blosson], Kotzebue 

 Sound. The grassy meadows bordering lagoons seemed to be its 

 most congenial haunt, although I met with a few on the hillsides 



