CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS.. 5 



Brooks found it on Okanagan lake, B.C. during the whole winter. 

 The writer has found it breeding from Manitoba to Kamloops in 

 British Columbia, so that its breeding ground covers practically 

 the whole northern part of the continent. Spreadborough saw it 

 on most of the small lakes bfetween Lesser Slave lake and Peace 

 River Landing in 1903, saw three on Elk river, B.C., April, 22nd, 

 1904, common at Bayne lake, May loth, 1904, and at Douglas, 

 B.C., April, 1906. Nearly all had left the latter place by May loth. 



Breeding Notes. — Breeds commonly around all small lakes in 

 Alberta. {Dippie.) Common at Crane lake in June, 1894. Breed- 

 ing in pairs in all the marshes and sloughs. Nests composed of 

 reeds, grass and mud, attached to the reeds, or on floating masses 

 of sticks and sedges. They were also common at Indian Head, 

 Sask., and at Bracebridge, Ont. {Spreadborough.) On June 15th, 

 1893, I found a colony of this grebe nesting on an island in a small 

 lake seven miles north of Rush lake, Sask.; I have also found it 

 breeding at Long lake and Shoal lake, Manitoba. This species 

 lays from five to eight eggs, five or six being the usual number. 

 A few pairs breed at St. Clair flats, Ont. I have received several 

 clutches of eggs from there. {Rame.) Breeding on all ponds 

 and marshes near Prince Albert, Sask. {Coiibeaux.) Breeds on 

 interior lakes of B.C. as far south as Ashcroft. {Rhoads.) 



This most beautiful of the grebe family is generally distributed 

 about the marshes and ponds all over Manitoba and was noted 

 quite as abundantly at every suitable point along the Grand 

 Trunk Pacific railway as far as Edmonton. Nests containing 

 fresh eggs were found at Sydney, Carberry, Hamiota and Spy 

 hill while from that westward after July ist the chicks and 

 parent birds were noted in almost every fresh water pond or 

 marsh. (Geo. Atkinson.) 



This is a northern species, and rarely breeds in the St. Lawrence 

 valley. I found a nest containing two fresh eggs at Escott pond, 

 Leeds co., Ont., 29th May, 1890; also four eggs at the St. Law- 

 rence on the i8th June, 1896. On the occasion of my visit to 

 the Magdalen islands, in June, 1897, I ^'"et with three pairs of 

 this bird in a large pond of water — which at times is brackish- 

 near the East point, and discovered a nest with two fresh eggs on 

 June 22P.d. This nest exactly resembled the one I found on Escott 



