120 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 22, 



Calcarius pictus (Swain.s.). Smith Longspur. 



Rather common on the meadows at Fort Churchill July 23 to 30. 

 They were quite tame, but were hard to see on the mossy hillocks, 

 their coloring rendering them very inconspicuous. Often the first 

 intimation I had of their proximity was their note, consisting of 

 several sharp chips uttered in rapid succession. Three adult males 

 and a .young male just from the nest were taken. The young male, 

 which was secured July 24, maj' he described as follows: Back dusky, 

 the feathers edged with deep buff and whitish; feathers of head and 

 neck dusky, mostlj' edged with buff, collar of adult being indicated by 

 white edgings; wing quills strongly edged with brown, coverts tipped 

 with white; lower pails buffy, about as in adults, chest consi:)icuously 

 strealced with black, and sides marked with obscure spots of dusky; 

 white markings of head plainly indicated. 



Murray recorded specimens from Severn House;" and a specimen 

 collected by Dr. Rae at Repulse Bay is recorded in the British Museum 

 Catalogue. 



Pooecetes gramineus (Gmel.). Vesper Sparrow. 



Nutting reports the vespei' sparrow common at Grand Rapids, Sas- 

 katchewan, where specimens were taken in the summer of 18!>1.* 



Ammodramus sandwiehensis savanna (Wils.). Savanna Sparrow. 



Common throughout the region wherever suitable ground occurred, 

 especially in the vicinitj' of the posts. At Norway House June 22 we 

 found young just beginning to fly, and took several specimens of these 

 and the old birds. We collected other specimens at Oxford House 

 June 30 to July 4, and at York Factory, where they were especially 

 common on the marsh at Beacon Point. We collected two more at 

 Fort Churchill and two in the juvenal plumage at my camp 60 miles 

 south of Cape Eskimo August 4 to 8. The last were taken in traps 

 set for voles. The catalogue of birds in the U. S. National Museum 

 collection contains the record of a specimen taken at Moose Factory 

 in 1881 by Walton Hay don. 



Ammodramus bairdi (Aud.). Baird Sparrow. 



Nutting records a specimen taken at Grand Rapids, Saskatchewan, 

 in the summer of l8i»l.'' 



Zonotrichia querula (Nutt.). Harris Sparrow. 



A number of specimens, including adults of both sexes and young just 

 from the nest, were collected, July 23 to 30, at Fort Churchill, where the 

 birds were rather common. They frequent the scattered patches of 



aEdin. New Phil. Journ. (new ser.), IX, p. 223, 1859. 

 6Nat. Hist. Bull. Univ. Iowa, II, p. 275, 1893 

 fibid., p. 275, 1893. 



