adult was observed feeding young in a thicket by a small creek on
July 20. At Bulkley Lake adults and full grown young frequented

a habitat of meadow and willow thicket. It was seen on migration
at Bouchie Lake, August 18, and at Puntchesakut Lake, September ¢.

Song Sparrow--Melospiza melodia (Wilson).

Found nesting commonly in all the regions visited except Baker
Creek Valley and Rocher Deboule. Its absence from the former region
was surprising as it was present in seemingly less suitable habitats
at Summit Lake and Sixteen Mile Lake.

A nest at Bouchie Lake, made of dry grass and aspen bark and
lined with moose hair, was situated six inches above ground in the
centre of a small dead willow. This contained four eggs on June 6.
Another, made of dry sedge strips and lined with fine grass,
was on the ground in a strip of sedge marsh between a willow thicket
and the inner edge of a cattail marsh. It contained four naked
young on June 8 It was estimated that 10 pair nested along a
quarter mile of shrubbery and willows on the west end of the
lake

At Summit Lake at least 10 pair occupied thickets of dwarf
birch, black twin-berry and hardhack that featured the shores of a
small bay on the east side of the lake. The behaviour of singing
males and the actions of the females indicated that young were being
fed when this place was visited on June 27. Males were heard sing-
ing in a muskeg at Summit Lake and in a muskeg at Swamp Lake. At
other places--Nukko Lake, Fraser Lake, Francois Lake, Bulkley Lake,
Smithers and Hazelton, they occupied willow and alder bottoms. At
Sixteen Mile Lake the preferred habitat was a jungle of deciduous
growth along a small creek that flowed through a narrow valley in
deep ee consskerous MOnesu.

The subspecies represented is Melospiza melodia inexpectata
Riley.

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