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 222 THE CONDOR Vol. XXI way from the train directly to his house, and, as I arrived early in the morn- ing, usually Sunday, I generally found him, where he naturally would be ex- pected to be, in bed. However, he always arose with alacrity, and before a bright fire in his study was ready for a talk on my last seasoh's work, and for the exhibition of any notable specimens he. had received from the Tropics since my last visit. He was a very. genial and courteous gentleman of the old school, and retained his interest in ornithology to the last. DUPLICATES OF VESTERN BIRDS ASSIGNED TO'ME My interest in collecting large series )f western birds was greatly in- creased by the privilege accorded me by Lieut. Wheeler, and assented to by Prof. Baird, of selecting from the duplicates of each year a series for my own collection. In those days western birds were rare indeed, and my collection soon became very valuable as a study series. With the permission of Prof. Baird I finally brought it to Washington and stored it in the Smithsonian, within easy access of Mr. Ridgway and myself, and I was enabled in my spare time to rearrange, label and prepare a card catalogue of it. This card cata- logue is still extant and has proved valuable to others besides myself for ref- erence purposes. .. (To be continued) BIRD NOTES FIOM SASKATCHEWAN By H. H. MITCHELL WITH THREE PHOTOS )ROBABLY Saskatchewan, of all the Canadian Provinces, is the least [- known from an ornithological point of view. With an area equal to the states of North Dakota, South Dakot and Nebraska, it consequently of- fers a large field of possibilities. In the south-west, bordering on the state of Montana, is an arid, or semi-arid district, the more or less rolling prairie of which is broken by the 'low, partly wooded Cypress Hills. with considerable sage-brush on the southern slopes. Farther north and eastward is the more level wheat-producing bare prairie. Partly wooded areas then extend north- ward to the Saskatchewan tiver, north branch, beyond which is the compara- tively little known forest country, with its larger lakes, reaching Lake Atha- baska and Reindeer Lake near the northern boundary of the province. Spizella breweri. Brewer Sparrow. It was in the district first mentioned above, in the valIey of the Frenchman River, that I found this species, June 16, 1919, evidently breeding in numbers in the sage-brush patches on the river- fiats and open southern slopes of the Cypress Hills. I believe the' birds were fairly common between Eastend and Ravenscrag, possibly .extending to points farther west. Time permitted me ,only to work a few miles west of Eastend, mostly on the ranch Of Mr. Lawrence Potter, who, by the way, is one of our few reliable bird observers. Along the valley on his an ch alone we estimated