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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



Slave Lake. Macoun, on the authority of Spreadborough, gives it 

 as a common species at Edmonton and south in the foothills to 

 Crow Nest Pass, as common from Edmonton to Yellowhead Pass in 

 June, 1898, and as abundant from the mouth of Lesser Slave Kiver 

 to Peace Eiver Landing in June, 1903. On the authority of J. M. 

 Macoun, he stated that it was common [in 1888] between Edmonton 

 and Athabaska Landing and up the Athabaska to Lesser Slave 

 Kiver, rare down the Athabaska to Fort McMurray, and common on 

 Methye Portage and from there to Isle a la Crosse.^^ Seton gives it 

 as occurring in 1907 on Great Slave Lake east to its eastern end.'^ 



J. Alden Loring reported the species common at Edmonton, Al- 

 berta, September 7 to 26, 1894, and took specimens September 23 and 

 26. In the early summer of 1896, he found it common all along the 

 trail to the westward of Edmonton, taking specimens 25 miles north- 

 west of Edmonton, May 25, and at Ste. Anne, May 27. He also took 

 a specimen at the head of Grand Cache Kiver, August 31. A speci- 

 men taken at Baillie Island, May 22, 1901, has been identified by Dr. 

 A. K. Fisher of the Biological Survey. 



Junco hyemalis connectens Coues. Shufeldt Junco. 



The form designated as above by the American Ornithologists' 

 Union is called by Mr. Kidgway Junco oreganiis shiifeldti^ and con- 

 nectens is considered by him a hybrid between Junco hyemalis and 

 Junco oreganus shufelclU. 



Specimens referred to /. o. shufeldti by Mr. Kidgway were taken 

 by J. Alden Loring in 1896 at the following localities: Fifteen miles 

 south of Henry House, where he reported it breeding commonly close 

 to timber line, July 3 to 21, and took a specimen July 13; Smoky 

 Kiver Valley, 50 miles north of Jasper House, two specimens, August 

 27; and the foothills of the Kocky Mountains, 25 miles northeast of 

 Jasper House, one specimen, October 5. Another specimen (No. 

 157815), taken on the Jasper House trail 40 miles west of Edmonton, 

 on May 30, 1896, was referred by Kidgway to ' connectens.'^ 



Macoun, on the authority of Spreadborough, gives this form as oc- 

 curring in the Kocky Mountains south of Yellowhead Pass in July, 

 1898 ; he records also two specimens taken at Edmonton, Alberta, in 

 May, 1897.^ 



Junco hyemalis montaniis Kidgw. Montana Junco. 



This species, according to Kidgway, breeds in western Alberta, and 

 specimens identified by him and now in the Biological Survey col- 

 lection were taken by J. Alden Loring at the following localities: 



« Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 501, 1904. 

 * Aiili, XXV, p. 72, 1908. 



c Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, pp. 504, 505, 1904. 



