444 NOKTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 27. 



Peace River Landing in June, 1903. He records also specimens from 

 Edmonton and Peace River Landing, Alberta.^ 



Wliile collecting at Edmonton, Alberta, in the early autumn of 

 1894, J. Alden Loring found the bird fairly common, and took speci- 

 mens on September 11, 17, and 18. In the early summer of 1896 he 

 reported it uncommon on the Jasper House trail, taking a specimen 

 ^ibout 25 miles northwest of Edmonton, May 25. In the early autumn 

 of the same year he found it rare and difficult to obtain along the 

 trail between Jasper House and Smoky River. 



Melospiza lincolni (Aud.). Lincoln SparroAv. 



This is the common song sparrow of the region. In 1901 it was 

 first noted near Poplar Point, on the lower Athabaska, where a male 

 in full song was observed May 16. A female was taken at Fort Chipe- 

 wyan. May 23. The species was next noted at Fort Smith, where 

 numbers were seen, June 19 to 28, and three specimens were collected. 

 It was noted at Fort Resolution, July 5 and 9, and at Yellowknife 

 Bay, on the Northern Arm of Great Slave Lake, on July 16. At 

 Trout Rock a nest containing four eggs was collected, together with 

 the female parent, July 17. It was placed on the ground in a patch 

 of thick grass near Avater. At Fort Rae the bird av as noted almost 

 daily, Jul}^ 19 to 29, and seA^eral specimens, including young not long 

 from the nest, Avere taken July 23 and 25. On our return trip a fcAv 

 individuals Avere seen on the Athabaska, aboA^e Pelican Portage, 

 August 25. 



On May 13, 1903, Ave first observed this bird a few miles north of 

 Sturgeon River. We next noted it 50 miles beloAv Athabaska Land- 

 ing, May 17, aiid observed it at Grand Rapid, May 21 and 22. We 

 did not again note it until June 17, Avhen one w^as seen near Lime- 

 stone Point, on the loAver SlaA-e. We found it A^ery common at Fort 

 Resolution during the latter part of June. During their trip to the 

 Mackenzie my brother and Gary noted it at Hay River, June 29, and 

 the folloAving day found a nest containing five heaAdly incubated eggs. 

 The male bird Avas shot just after being flushed from the eggs, show- 

 ing that it assists in incubation. A few others Avere noted at Fort 

 Providence, J uly 6 and 7 ; at the mouth of Willow Lake River, June 

 19; and at Fort Wrigley, June 21 and 22. On their return trip the}" 

 noted an adult and two fledged young on the Athabaska, beloAv Red 

 River, on August 6, and found it common along the river from Brule 

 Rapid to Athabaska Landing, August 18 to September 13, and near 

 the latter place up to September 23. They noted it also near Lily 

 Lake, September 24. During my trip nortliAvard from Fort Rae, 

 after the diAusion of the party, I observed this sparroAV on Grandin 



«Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, pp. 507-509, 1904. 



