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it seen by us beyond Lat. 57°. (Richardson^ North to Fort Good 

 Hope on the Mackenzie Rjjrer. (Ross.) This species breeds in 

 the forest and to the border of the " barrens " where several birds, 

 nests and eggs, were secured; the nests were always on the ground 

 and made with fine hay lined with deer hair. (Macfarlarte.) 



This is one of the rarest sparrows visiting Behring Sea ; it is, 

 however, much more numerous in the interior and is found along 

 the entire course of the Yukon at the mouth of which it breeds ; 

 it extends its summer range along the Norton Sound shore of 

 Behring Sea and the coast of the Arctic about Kotzebue Sound, 

 yet there is no record of it having been taken on the coast ol 

 southeastern Alaska, nor does it occur on any of the islands of 

 Behring Sea. {Nelson.) This species is rarely common at St. 

 Michael; it is seen only in May and November. {Turner.) This is 

 a straggler at Point Barrow, only one specimen being taken on 

 May 24th, 1883, which was a male. {Murdoch.) At the time of 

 our arrival at our winter camp on the Kowak, and up to the 9th 

 September, juncos were seen nearly every day, though not more 

 than five at a time ; they were always met with in the deep spruce 

 woods; the last were seen on the 12th September; in the following 

 spring they were noted on the 23rd May ; they were never 

 numerous, two pairs being the most that were seen in half a day's 

 hunt ; this species was not noted further down the Kowak than 

 near the mouth of the Squirrel Riv,er, where a pair was seen on 

 June 8th. {Grinnell!) Common at Hope on Cook's Inlet, Alaska, 

 in August, 1900. {Osgood.) Five specimens were taken on the 

 Kenai mountains and at Homer, Alaska, in August and 

 September, 1901 ; the breeding ground of this, junco was in 

 extensive alder patches just above timber line ; they were quite 

 common and were found in all such localities visited. {Chapman^ 

 From Log Cabin on the White Pass, to Circle City in Alaska, 

 this bird occurs everywhere. The slate-coloured sparrow, Gam- 

 bel's sparrow and the western chipping sparrow were mosit 

 common about heaps of brush left by lumbermen, weed-grown 

 clearings resulting from forest fires and cabins of the towns. 

 Every nest was sunk in the ground to the rim in an open place 

 under a weed or tussock of grass. One contained a few dark 

 hairs besides the usual fine grass lining. {Bishop^ 



Breeding Notes. — The nesting season of this species in New 

 Brunswick is May and June. From 'three to five eggs are laid in 



