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lected the previous spring at Eorts Rae, Resolution, and 

 Chipewyan. In 1886 he further received a few similar 

 specimens from the tvro last-mentioned points. A skin, 

 nest and set of eggs obtained at Fort Providence were for- 

 warded to Dr. Bell. On 14th June, 1889, a nest holding four 

 greatly developed eggs was found on a tree near Fort St. 

 James, B.C. This sparrow breeds in large numbers in the 

 wooded sections of the valley of the Anderson, where, how- 

 ever, the nests were nearly always on the ground, placed 

 amid tufts or tussocks of grass, clumps of Labrador tea 

 (Ledum palustre), and on stunted willows. They were com- 

 posed of fine hay and lined with deer hair, occasionally 

 mixed with a few feathers. Several were made entirely of 

 the finer grasses. The usual number of eggs was four, 

 but a lot contained as many as five and six. Upwards of 

 one hundred nests were collected in the region referred to. 

 At Peel's River, Arctic America, on June 2nd, 1898, the 

 Rev. E. 0. Whittaker found a nest with four eggs built in 

 a patch of moss on the ground. In one of the first Check 

 Lists, issued by the American Ornithologists' Union, about 

 twenty years ago, this sparrow, previously Icnown under 

 ZonotricMa gambelii, was renamed Z. leucophrys intermedia, 

 while it appears by the latest revised Check List to hand as 

 Z. leucophrys gamhelii. 



The Ottawa Museum contains twenty-seven specimens 

 (but not a solitary egg!) from the Provinces of Saskat- 

 chewan, Alberta and British Columbia. 



558. White-theoatbd Spaeeow — Zonotrichia albicollis 



(Gmelin). 



At Moose Lake, Cumberland House, and Pelican Nar- 

 rows a few examples (birds, nests and eggs) were obtained 

 during the seasons of 1890 and 1891. Common at Grand 

 Rapids and elsewhere in Cumberland District. We never 

 observed any at Fort Anderson, but Mr. Ross says they are 

 rare at Fort Simpson, while Sir John Richardson believed 



