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1974. Adults were present each year at Cape Peirce beginning on 13-19 

 May, nests had eggs in them between 18 June and 4 July, and fledglings 

 were first seen between 6 and 28 July. Other records for Cape Peirce 

 include a nest with four eggs on 4 July 1964 Q. G. King, unpublished), 

 two nests with four eggs each on 21-23 June, and one nest with four 

 young on 30 June 1984 (D. R. Herter et al., personal communication). At 

 Round Island, E. H. Miller (unpublished) found two nests with five eggs 

 each on 17-18 June and three nests with one egg and two, three, or four 

 chicks each on 25-28 June 1972; T. J. Eley (unpublished) found fledged 

 young beginning in mid-July 1974. 



Fall migrants began to appear in August throughout the study area: 

 Birds were seen in early August at Kagati Lake (M. J. Fry, unpublished), 

 were present August-22 September at Cape Peirce and Nanvak Bay (this 

 study), and were seen August 1973 at the Togiak River. Miners at Nyac 

 use the traditional name of golden-crowned sparrows from their song; 

 they are called the "No-gold-here" bird. 



White-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leticophrys). Asr (14 May- 

 25 September). Specimens: RMS 1 962/36/56 and RMS 1 962/36/57. 



Sparrows nested in the northern Kilbuck Mountains and were un- 

 common or rare elsewhere. Inland, they nested at the Salmon and 

 Tuluksak rivers (this study), were common nesting birds at the KisaraUk 

 River (Mindell 1983), and seen there in summer (16-19 June 1987; B. J. 

 McCaffery, personal communication) and fall (10-27 August 1985; 

 M. Brown et al., unpublished). Sparrows were present at the Kwethluk 

 River (1-15 birds per day on 10 days during 1 1-27 July 1985; M. Brown 

 et al., unpublished); present at the Eek River (1-15 birds per day on 

 24-26 June 1985; M. Brown et al., unpublished); uncommon at the 

 Kanektok River (White and Boyce 1978); and present at the Togiak River. 

 Along the coast, they probably nested at Goodncws and Chagvan bays; 

 one bird was seen at Round Island on 20 July 1974 (T. J. Eley, unpub- 

 lished), and they were rare and suspected to nest at Crooked Island in 

 1977 (P. D. Ameson and D. B. McDonald, personal communication). 



Sparrows nested 15-425 m asl at edges of riparian habitats in tall 

 shrubs, other tall shrub woodlands, low shrubs, and low, open spruce 

 forests. We found 11.7 pairs per square kilometer in disturbed and 

 24.3 pairs per square kilometer in undisturbed riparian habitats at the 

 Tuluksak River in 1983- One bird there was incubating eggs on 8 June 

 1974. Young fledged on 26 June 1962, 25-30 June 1974, and 4 July 1979, 

 and independent young were seen after 10 July each year. We found birds 

 at the Tuluksak River into August and as late as 25 September 1977. Along 

 the coast, we saw birds at Cape Peirce between 14 May and 1 1 June (three 

 birds in 1970, five birds in 1973, eight birds in 1976); four birds were 

 seen at Cape Peirce between 3-6 August 1981 (D. R. Herter and D. Lloyd, 



