. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part III, sparrows, swallows, vireos, warblers, wrens, titmice and thrushes, including the order : passeres after the icteridæ. Birds; Oiseaux. 5o8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF April 30th, 1894; quite common in scrub along the river and creeks by May 5th; a few found breeding at Crane Lake, but especially along Skull Creek; in the Cypress Hills, at the last of June- they were quite common along the willow thickets bordering the small creeks forming Swift Current Creek. This species is always by water, and wherever there is water and brush. We found
. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part III, sparrows, swallows, vireos, warblers, wrens, titmice and thrushes, including the order : passeres after the icteridæ. Birds; Oiseaux. 5o8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF April 30th, 1894; quite common in scrub along the river and creeks by May 5th; a few found breeding at Crane Lake, but especially along Skull Creek; in the Cypress Hills, at the last of June- they were quite common along the willow thickets bordering the small creeks forming Swift Current Creek. This species is always by water, and wherever there is water and brush. We found it from Old Wives' Creek to Wood Mountain and west to Frenchman's River, and by all the creeks issuing from the Cypress Hills. Many nests were found on the ground, generally beneath willows. A few individuals were seen in the Milk River valley at Castellated Rocks, Alberta, also on the West Butte, on the 49th parallel, and at Lee's Creek farther west; very rare at Banff in the Rocky Mountains, breeding in the bushes in the marsh below " the Cave and Basin " in June, 1891; first observed one April 20th, at Edmonton, Alta.; found a nest May 26th and another May 27th with five eggs; nests, on the ground, composed of dry grass, lined with a little horse hair; common south in the foothills to Crow's Nest Pass; common from mouth of Lesser Slave River to Peace River Landing Lat. 56° 15' in June, 1903; common from Edmonton to the crossing of McLeod's River,north of Edmonton in June, 1898. {Spreadborough) Breeding Notes.—A common breeding bird around Ottawa. Nest in a low bush, or tuft of grass, or on the ground; built of grass, rootlets and vegetable matter, lined with grass and hair. Eggs four, greenish or grayish white spotted with brown, choco- late and lavender. {G. R. White.) Breeding in May, June and July, and occasionallv in August in New Brunswick. I would not be surprised if some specialist were to divide our song spar- rows into two races. There is certainly a d
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