Banks 1959 Zonotrichia leucophrys 32. June 26 11 mi. W Parksville, Vancouver Is., B.C. In a field of grass and bracken, 632 was a bird where I were singing - - - - This bird flew from a place where young were. This is right on the Alberni Highway, just E of the park. It borders on a very marshy area, and across the road is a railroad track, where I also saw a bird on bracken. June 27 Saw 2 birds in bracken, then shot one just as it was singing on a telephone wire along the road, 634. Shot at but lost, the other bird. Both these were in the bracken where the earth one obtained last night had been. There is a group of semi-flying young birds here. The bird obtained has a stubby, deformed upper mandible. Alberni area, Vancouver Island B.C. - this area toward the West of the island is served by both highway and railroad from Parksville. I heard the song of the White-crowned at three places. These were: 4.7 mi., 3.5 mi., and 3.3 mi, north of the highway junction at Alberni on the Beaver Creek Road, toward Great Central, and 3.1 mi N (a NW) of this junction on the River Road, toward Sprout Lake. All areas where the song was heard were in cleared areas around homes, and it was impossible