CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 5 II 



and seen at Comox, Vancouver Island, June, 1893. (^Spread- 

 borough?) No specimens of this form were collected in the breed- 

 ing season along the coast of British Columbia by me. {Rhoads) 

 Common at New Westminster and at English Bay and Stanley 

 Park near Vancouver, B.C., 1894. {E. F. G. White.) 



Tolerably common in the bushy or grassy margins of the forests 

 along the beaches at Sitka, Alaska. (Grinnell!) Very abundant 

 on Queen Charlotte Islands. A few nests were taken, one was 

 situated in a bunch of weeds near the water's edge and contained 

 two fresh eggs, all nests taken were in the same situation. {Osgood.) 

 We heard several singing at Skagway, May 31st, 1899, and others 

 were seen at Haines Mission, June ist and 2nd. (Bishop.) In the 

 wooded coast region of southeastern Alaska, including Sitka, and 

 thence northwest to Lituya Bay and Kadiak,this bird is abundant, 

 but beyond this limited region it is unknown at present. (Nelson.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Nine ; one taken at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 12th, 

 18S9 ; six taken at Huntington, B.C., in September, 1901 ; two 

 taken at Victoria, Vancouver Island, May, 1893, all by Mr. Spread- 

 borough. 



One set of five eggs taken at Comox, Vancouver Island, May 

 27th, 1895, by Mr. W. Harvey. The nest was close to the beach 

 in a bank of nettles, built of coarse grass or weed stalks on the 

 outside and finer material within, ending with dark-coloured hair. 



ssijir. Yakutat Song Sparrow. 



, Melospisa cinerea caurina {'R.iT)GV{h\) Ridgw. 1901. 

 Coast of middle Alaska, from Cook's Inlet to Cross Sound ; in 

 winter to southern Alaska, taken at Howcan, Prince of Wales 

 Island. (Ridgway in The Auk, Vol. XVI, 1899, p. 36.) Coast of 

 theSt. Elias district, Alaska, from Yakutat Bay to Lituya Bay. 

 (Ridgway?) 



581 • 1 . Kenai Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza cinerea kenaieiisis (Ridgw.) Ridgway. 1901. 

 Coast of Kenai peninsula, Alaska, from east side of Cook's 

 Inlet to Prince William Sound. Type from Port Graham, Cook's 

 Inlet, taken April 9th, 1892, by C, H. Townsend. (Ridgway in 

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