CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 47I 



summer resident throughout the Assiniboine valley, wherever 

 there are alkalinte flats. In many parts of the prairies west of 

 Birtle there are low flat alkaline stretches sparsely covered with 

 long, wiry grass. Wherever the land is of this character Baird's 

 bunting is sure to be a prominent if not a prevailing species. 

 {Thompson-Seten!) One specimen secured the first time we went 

 collecting at Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan; shot on a high 

 grassy plain between the fort and the lake. {NutHng.) 



Breeding Notes. — I found a nest and four eggs of this bird as 

 I was riding over the prairie near Crescent Lake, Assa., on June 

 3rd, 1901. On June 6th, while driving to Saltcoats marshes we 

 flushed another Baird's sparrow off its nest containing five ex- 

 ceedingly handsome eggs. Nest on the ground at the side of the 

 trail. June 7th I found another nest and five eggs, nest, like the 

 other, made of dried grass, lined with hair, built on the ground 

 in short grass. The eggs are like well blotched eggs of the 

 vesper sparrow but are much smaller and averaging '75 x "55 

 inches. {W. Raine.) 



CXCIX. COTURNICULUS Bonaparte. 1838. 



546. Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Cotumiculus savannarumpasserinus {y^iLSi.) RiDGw. 1885. 

 Said to occur in New Brunswick by Mr. Adams. {Chamberlain^ 

 I am quite sure this species is at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B., 

 but have not secured a specimen. (W. H. Moore.) 



There are two Toronto records, one in 1879, and the second in 

 1890. (/ If. Fleming.) Fairly common in the two southwestern 

 counties of Ontario; but a rare summer resident near London; 

 usually only one specimen observed in several years. (W. E. 

 Saunders^ 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two; taken at Hyde Park Corner, near London, Ont., in 1889, 

 by W. E. Saunders. 



54 6a. Western Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Cotumiculus savatinarumbimaculatus (Swains.) Ridgw. 1901. 

 A summer resident near Vernon, B.C. {Brooks?) 



