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made of dried grass and lined with hair. {Spreadborough.) We 

 found this species daily from Log Cabin on the White Pass to 

 Dawson on the Yukon, Lat. 64° 15', between June 15th and August 

 1st, 1899. We found a nest with four eggs at Lake Bennett, June 

 24th. Large young in a nest on Tagish Lake, June 30th. Young 

 able to fly were met with at Marsh Lake, July 5th, and a set of 

 three eggs on Thirty-mile River, July l8th. The nests were in 

 small spruces, one, four inches, the other three feet from the 

 ground. Gambel's sparrow, slate-coloured junco and this species 

 are, in point of numbers, the commonest sparrows on the Yukon 

 River. {Bisltop.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Seventeen; one taken at Canmore,Alta., May 25th, 1891; one at 

 Revelstoke, B.C., May 7th, iBgo; one at Deer Park, Columbia 

 River, B.C., June 6th, 1890; six at Trail, near the International 

 Boundary, B.C., in May, 1902; one at Spence's Bridge, B.C., 

 May 29th, 1889; one at Agassiz, B.C., Maygth, 1889, one at Hast- 

 ings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 23rd, 1889; four at Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, in May, 1893, and one at Penticton, B.C., April, 

 1903, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



-561. Clay-Coloured Sparrow. 



Spizella pallida (Swains.) Bonap. 1838. 

 On May 9th, 1894, while hunting in a field of small shrubs- about 

 15 miles west of London, Ont., I saw a small sparrow sitting on 

 the top twig of a shrub, after the manner of the field sparrow and 

 saw him give a note whose author I was looking for. It proved 

 to be a Spizella pallida, the first recorded, I believe, in our prov- 

 ince, though they may yet be found inhabiting the northwestern 

 extremity, next to Manitoba. {W. E. Saunders^ The western 

 meadow lark, Brewer's blackbird and the present species were the 

 chief birds I observed at Pembina to indicate an avi-fauna in any 

 wise different from that of the eastern province at large, and two 

 of these cannot be considered very strong marks since they both 

 occur some distance further eastward. {Coues.) Very abundant 

 summer resident in Manitoba on scrubby prairies and half open 

 lowlands. This small sparrow arrives in flocks about the 12th 

 May. Its small size and pale-ashy hue will generally identify it 

 as it rambles over the scrubby part of the prairie. {Thompson- 



