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way from the train directly to his house, and, as I arrived early in the morn- 
ing, usually Sunday, I generally found him, where he naturally would be ex- 
pected to be, in bed. However, he always arose with alacrity, and before a 
bright fire in his study was ready for a talk on my last season’s work, and 
for the exhibition of any notable specimens he had received from the Tropies 
since my last visit. He was a very genial and courteous gentleman of the old 
school, and retained his interest in ornithology to the last. 
DUPLICATES OF WESTERN BIRDS ASSIGNED TO ME 
My interest in collecting large series of western birds was greatly in- 
creased by the privilege accorded me by Lieut. Wheeler, and assented to by 
Prof. Baird, of selecting from the duplicates of each year a series for my own 
collection. In those days western birds were rare indeed. and my eollection 
soon became very valuable as a study series. With the permission of Prof. 
Baird I finally brought it to Washington and stored it in the Smithsonian, 
within easy access of Mr. Ridgway and myself, and I was enabled in my spare 
time to rearrange, label and prepare a card catalogue of it. This ecard cata- 
logue is still extant and has proved valuable to others besides myself for ref- 
erence purposes. 
(To be continued) 
BIRD NOTES FROM SASKATCHEWAN, 
By H. H. MITCHELL 
WITH THREE PHOTOS 
ROBABLY Saskatchewan, of all the Canadian Provinces, is the least 
known from an ornithological point of view. With an area equal to the 
states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, it consequently of- 
fers a large field of possibilities. In the south-west, bordering on the state of 
Montana, is an arid, or semi-arid district, the more or less rolling prairie of 
which is broken by the low, partly wooded Cypress Hills. with considerable 
sage-brush on the southern slopes. Farther north and eastward is the more 
level wheat-producing bare prairie. Partly wooded areas then extend north- 
ward to the Saskatchewan River, north branch, beyond which is the compara- 
tively little known forest country, with its larger lakes, reaching Lake Atha- 
baska and Reindeer Lake near the northern boundary of the province. 
Spizella breweri. Brewer Sparrow. It was in the district first mentioned 
above, in the valley of the Frenchman River, that I found this species, June 16, 
1919, evidently breeding in numbers in the sage-brush patches on the river- 
flats and open southern slopes of the Cypress Hills. I believe the birds were 
fairly common between Eastend and Ravenscrag, possibly extending to points 
farther west. Time permitted me only to work a few miles west of Hastend, 
mostly on the ranch of Mr. Lawrence Potter, who, by the way, is one of our 
few reliable bird observers. Along the valley on his ranch alone we estimated 
