472 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



CC. AMM0DRAMT7S Swainson. 1827. 

 . 547. Heuslow's Sparrow. 



Ammodramus henslowii (AuD.) Gray. 1849. 

 Thus far we have found this bird only near Sarnia, and at 

 Jeannette's Creek, Ont.; but as about a dozen birds were observed 

 altogether on four different occasions in two years I believe it is 

 a fairly common summer resident in the western peninsula of 

 Ontario wherever a favourable locality exists. The original dis- 

 covery was made on May 24th, 1898, when several were noted at 

 Jeannette's Creek and since then they have been found in the 

 locality on two other occasions. This is the most inconspicuous 

 bird I have ever met with; it runs through the glass like a mouse 

 and does not rise until one is almost on it, when it makes a short 

 zigzag flight and again conceals itself. (W. E. Saunders.) I was" 

 surprised to find this sparrow on Lake Joseph, Muskoka, and 

 apparently breeding. I first noticed it on July 14th, 190.2, in a 

 hay-field about a mile from Port Sanfield, arid for some days had 

 every opportunity of watching the males as they sat on the fence 

 and uttered their rather wheezy notes. Two more pairs were in 

 one field, and I could find none in any of the few likely places 

 elsewhere. (/. H. Fleming in The Auk, Vol. XIX., p. 403.) 



648. Leconte's Sparrow. 



Ammodramus leconteii (Aud.) Gray. 1849. 



A male specimen of this species was given to me as an Acadian 

 sharp-tailed sparrow, taken May 5th, 1897, at Toronto, Ont.; this 

 is the first record for Ontario. (/. H. Ames in The Auk, Vol. 

 XIV., p. 411.) 



The rediscovery of this little known and extremely interesting 

 species in Dakota was made in the season of 1873 by the Boun- 

 dary Commission. On the march between Turtle Mountain and 

 the first crossing of the Mouse (Souris) River, I came upon what 

 seemed to be a small colonyof the birds in a moist depression of 

 the prairie. I subsequently found the bird again and secured 

 another specimen. (Coues.) This beautiful sparrow abounds in 

 Manitoba wherever there are meadows that offer the right com- 

 binations of willow, scrub and sedgy grass, and has been taken by 



