484 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



tains there. {Osgood.) This sparrow was found on the heights 

 above Glacier near Skagway and was common at White Pass 

 summit and continued to Portage, B.C. A nest almost finished 

 was found in a conifer at Summit Lake, June 12th. {Bishop). 

 Seen at Kenai Mountains and at Homer, Alaska. Was not seen 

 until late summer at Homerwhen it became very common. {Chap- 

 man.) The last of May, from the 25th to the 30th, it arrives in 

 the vicinity of St. Michael, and breeds sparingly along the Behring 

 Sea coast of the territory, and more rarely on the shores of 

 Kotzebue Sound. From the peninsula of Alaska south to Puget 

 Sound it is a common summer resident; its range extends beyond 

 the Arctic Circle. {Nelson) A pair of these birds was shot in 

 June, 1876, on the western end of Whale Island, near St. Michael; 

 they are not common in the interior. {Turner.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Four ; three taken at Victoria, Vancouver Island in April i%gy, 

 one taken at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 24th, 1889, all 

 by Mr. Spreadborough. 



558. White-tliroatecl Sparrow. 



Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmel.) Swains, 1837. 

 Reported by Stearns as common and breeding in southern 

 Labrador; Audubon states that this species is common, and that 

 they saw young late in July; Drexler obtained this species at 

 Moose Factory on May 31st, i860; Verrill reports this species as 

 far the most common singing bird on Anticosti. {Packard) Two 

 specimens taken at Chateau Bay, Labrador, July 14th, 1891. 

 {Norton) A common summer migrant in Newfoundland. {Reeks) 

 Fairly common along the Humber River, Newfoundland, 1899. 

 {Louis H. Porter) 



An abundant summer resident in Nova Scotia. {Downs) 

 Not uncommon on Sable Islaiid in the spring and autumn of 1902. 

 {James Bouteillier) Common at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape 

 Breton Island, N. S., July, 1898 ; not uncommon at Brackley 

 Beach, Prince Edward Island, nests taken June, 1888. {Macoun) 

 This bird so characteristic of the Canadian fauna, is less abundant 

 than the ubiquitous juncos, but on account of its loud and striking 

 song is far better known to the average inhabitant of Prince, 



