. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part III, sparrows, swallows, vireos, warblers, wrens, titmice and thrushes, including the order : passeres after the icteridæ. Birds; Oiseaux. 522 GEOLOGICAL SURVKV ol CANADA. MUSEUM SPKCIMI Two; one taken at Victoria, Vancouver Island, in April, 1887, and the other at Comox, , in May .)f the same year by Prof. Macoun. 585r. Slate-colored Sparrow. Passerella ilinca schistacca (I^mrh) Allen. 1872. Quite common at Banff, Rocky Mountains in May and June, 1891, where they were evidently breediiio; lare at Penticton, , in April, 1903; one sp
. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part III, sparrows, swallows, vireos, warblers, wrens, titmice and thrushes, including the order : passeres after the icteridæ. Birds; Oiseaux. 522 GEOLOGICAL SURVKV ol CANADA. MUSEUM SPKCIMI Two; one taken at Victoria, Vancouver Island, in April, 1887, and the other at Comox, , in May .)f the same year by Prof. Macoun. 585r. Slate-colored Sparrow. Passerella ilinca schistacca (I^mrh) Allen. 1872. Quite common at Banff, Rocky Mountains in May and June, 1891, where they were evidently breediiio; lare at Penticton, , in April, 1903; one specimen of this form was seen at Rossland, in June, 1902; one female was shot at Revelstoke, , April 25th, i89\ {Spreadborongh.) Taken at Nelson, on Kootanie R'ver. , and two intermediates from further west. {Rhoads.) MUSEIM SI'KCIMICNS. Kight; five taken at Banff between May 15th and June i6th, 1891; two taken at Penticton, , April 21st, 1903, and one at Edmonton, Alta., May 5th, iS97,by Mr. .Spreadborough. CCVll. PIPILO ViKiLLOT. 1816. h^'. Towhee. Pipilo erythroplitlialmus {\A\ti.)\h\i\\ 1824. Audubon, Vol. III., p. 168, states that it occurs northward to Labrador. {Packard.) Accidental in New Brunswick; one shot at Irishtown, May 8th, 1881. {Chamberlaiti.^ Cap Rouge, near Quebec, obtained by Mr. Nelson. {Dioiinc.) A few seen and one taken at Ottawa in August, 1890. (/'". A. Saunders.) This bird breeds commonly in the county of Leeds, near Lans- downe. Ont. I have found the nest in a small thick hemlock about "iS inches above the ground on the 19th May, and on the ground, with four eggs, as early as the 6th May. It appears usuallv to raise a second brood. In eastern Ontario it resorts to the .-iame kind of location as the fox sparrow frequents on the Magdalen Islands, preferring second growth woods and old clearings grown up with brambles and brush. It has a preference for broken uneven ground. It arrives about the middle of April and is one of
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