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 Nov., 1919 BIRD NOTF. S FROM SASKATCHIW.LN 223 there were eight or ten pairs of birds, based on males we .saw and heard. The females were evidently sitting and were not observed, nor did we find a nest. Males taken were breeding birds, and Mr. Fleming, of Toronto, to whom I sent a couple of skins for positive identification, agrees with my opinion that this is the first record of the species east of the Rockies, certainly the first for Sas- katchewan. Zonotrichia leucophrys leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. Several pairs of this species were noted in the above district, and thanks to Mr. Pot- ter's vigilance, a nest with five eggs, incubation advanced, was found on his ranch June 18, 1919. Mr. A. C. Bent and Mr. Spreadborough, I believe, mention it as common in 1907 and 1908 in the Cypreas Hills and apparently breeding,

Fig. 47. THE SOUTIt CYPRESS HILLS, NEAR FASTEND, SASKATCI-IEWAN; NEST OF FERRUGINOUS ROUGIt-LECED HAWK IN FOREGROUND. though I do not know if the actual finding of nests and eggs has before been recorded from the region. It is interesting to note that we have a skin of Z. 1. gainbell in the Provincial Museum taken at Reindeer Lake, July 16, 1914. Spiella soais olis. Chipping Sparrow. As far as my observatiorm go, this bird is not common in any part of the province. A breeding male was taken in the Cypress Hills, June 15, 1919. Otocoris a]pestris leucolaema, Desert Horned Lark. From specimens taken in the Cypress Hills, this would appear to be the only form found in that re- gion.