CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 483 



Abundant resident ; more common east of Coast Range. (Fannin.) 

 Rare migrant at Chilli wack; common in the winter at Okanagan 

 lake and in the Cariboo district, B.C. (Brooks.) 



This species is a summer resident in all northern Alaska and 

 extends its summer wanderings to the northern islands off the 

 coast of the Arctic sea. (Nelson.) This bird may be seen at St. 

 Michael, or its vicinity, at any season of the year, except the coldest 

 weather in midwinter. (Turner.) This species and the Lapland 

 longspur are the commonest passerine birds, and in fact the only 

 ones which could be said to be common at Point Barrow. (Mur- 

 doch.) Choris peninsula and Cape Lowenstern, Alaska. A rather 

 rare species around Kotzebue sound, but two pairs were seen that 

 had young. (Grinnell). A series of 43 specimens, all from Point 

 Barrow, Alaska, corresponds excellently with a series of Greenland 

 birds obtained by the Peary expedition. (Witmer Stone.) One 

 specimen was shot at White pass summit on June 12th. At St. 

 Michael I saw two in September, and numbers on St. George island, 

 Behring sea. (Bishop.) An adult male taken by Anderson at 

 Herendeen bay, Alaska peninsula, is clearly to be referred to nivalis 

 rather than to townsendi. (Chapman.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have a set of four eggs that were'^taken by 

 F. F. Payne at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson strait, June 20th, 

 1886. On June 25th, 1901, a snow bunting built its nest in a hole 

 under the eave of Mr. Stringer's house on Herschell island in the 

 Arctic Ocean, west of the mouth of Mackenzie bay; on June i8th 

 he found another nest and eggs on the ground in a hollow at the 

 side of a hummock. (W. Raine.) Nests everywhere in the north; 

 nests usually made of grass and feathers, usually hidden beneath a 

 large boulder. (A. P. Low.) 



534a. Pribilof Snowflake. 



P as serina nivalis townsendi (Ridgw.) Ridgw. 1898. 



This species was described from specimens taken by myself at 

 St. Michael, and by Mr. McKay at Nushagak, Bristol bay. At 

 both localities the bird appeared only as a migrant. (Nelson.) 

 Aleutian islands, including Pribilof islands, and Shumagin islands. 

 (Ridgway.) 

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