CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 5I3 



Island, June 26th, 1888. {Macoun.) Breedingin some abunda'nce 

 on both shores of the Gut of Canso, N.S. {Brewster.) A rare 

 summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B.; taken in 1899 

 at Fredericton where it undoubtedly breeds. {W.H.Moore.) Taken 

 at Beauport, near Quebec; an uncommon migrant. {Dionne.) 



A casual at Ottawa; a male of this species was shot, i6th 

 May, 1884, near the east end of the city by Mr. G. R. White. 

 (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have met with this bird breeding in 

 the county of Leeds, Ont. One set of eggs I found in April on 

 the ground by a small pine, and once in a clearing in a small wood 

 in the month of June. A few breed on the Magdalen Islands 

 where the song sparrow seems to be very rare. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 

 Apparently rare in the Algonquin Park, Ont. Shot one at Cache 

 Lake, July loth, 1900. Doubtless a few breed. {Spreadborough) 

 Reaching us about the middle of May, these bird are so secretive in 

 their habits that it is very difficult to make an accurate calculation 

 of their numbers but a careful observer will usually see a few 

 specimens each season. They visit us here in Toronto on the 

 southern trip about the middle of September. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 



Observed in large numbers during the latter part of September 

 and beginning of October along the Mouse (Souris) River. 

 {Coues.) A rare spring and winter migrant at Carberry, Man. 

 {Thompson-Seton.) Rather common, July 13th to i6th, at York 

 Factory where three specimens were collected. {E. A. Prebles.) 

 Only noted as a spring migrant at Indian Head, Assa.; they v.'ere 

 first seen May 13th, 1892, and left again in a few days. Only a few 

 were observed at Old Wives' Creek in 1895, ^"t none were seen on 

 the prairie at any place; they were not rare and breeding in the 

 bushes at Banff in 1891; first observed at Edmonton, Alta., on 

 May 5th, 1897, Of* June ist found a nest on the ground in a 

 a bunch of grass, nest made of dried grass, eggs five, quite fresh; 

 common in the foothills from Calgary southward to Crow's Nest 

 Pass; found a nest with four fresh eggs June 28th, nest same as 

 first ; abundant from Edmonton to Lesser Slave Lake and Peace 

 River Landing, Lat. 56-° 15', 1903 ; seen everywhere between 

 Edmonton and YellowheadPass in low bushes in June, 1898; quite 

 common at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and on the Columbia 

 south to Robson, where they were seen again in 1902, they were 

 breeding in low thickets ; common at Penticton, south of Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C. on April 28th, 1903. {Spreadborough.) North to 



