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common the same day. From that day I heard their song in 

 almost every clump of trees. A great number drew off to the 

 northward, but a good many remained. They generally fre- 

 quented the clumps of aspen trees and Norway pines, where the 

 ground was covered with a thick growth of dry fine grass. As I 

 saw no female nor evidence of nesting I gave the birds three 

 weeks and started out to look for their nests on the 15th of June. 

 Luckily I soon found a female off her nest and after an hour's 

 watching, during which time I suffered torments from the mos- 

 quitoes, she at last dropped down to her nest. On walking up 

 she fluttered out, and flew off some distance, returning shortly 

 with two others of the same species, when I put her off and shot 

 her. A hundred yards further on I came across another female, 

 probably one of the two that returned with the first one. I took 

 up a good position and waited twenty minutes, when she darted 

 down to the ground and disappeared, I went up and was just 

 going to kill her with my little '38 caliber collecting pistol as she 

 fluttered off, when out of the tail of my eye I saw the nest con- 

 tained newly hatched young; I found another nest the same day 

 by carefully quartering a likely piece of ground, and found several 

 the next week with young also. The nests were always on the 

 ground, sometimes at the foot of a small service-berry bush or 

 twig. They were all arched over by the dry fine grass of the 

 preceding year; this year's growth having just well commenced. 

 The nest is small and loosely constructed, being quite flat; it is 

 composed outwardly of a few leaves, a little moss and a good 

 deal of fine grass, lined only with the latter material. The nest 

 was situated on the ground in, and arched overwith, dry grass, and 

 no bush or twigs were near. (/. Parker Norris, Jr., in The Auk, 

 Vol. XIX, 88.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eight; two taken at Indian Head, Assa., May, 1892, two at 

 Medicine Hat, Assa., May, 1894, two at Banff, Rocky Mountains, 

 in June, 1891, and one at Edmonton, Alta., May 22nd, 1897, all 

 by Mr. W. Spreadborough; one taken at Athabasca Landing, 

 Alta., in May, 1888, by Mr. J. M. Macouii. 

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