CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. IIg 
BREEDING NotEes.—Have seen several nests, some on the 
ground and others upon old musk-rat houses. Nests made of 
grass lined with down. Breeds early ; have seen the young the 
first week in June, but also found eggs perfectly fresh June goth, 
1894. (Spreadborough.) A nest with six eggs, incubated about 
one week, was found near the Red Deer River, Alberta, May rith, 
1888. Between Athabasca Landing and Fort McMurray, two 
females with young about a week old were seen June 1ith. 
(J. M. Macoun.) 
Breeds in Assiniboia and Alberta and is one of the earliest 
breeders. Its eggs are often taken and put under fowls to hatch. 
I have seen broods of young Canada geese that were hatched 
and reared by turkeys at Rush Lake. When the first clutch is 
taken the bird lays another, sometimes on the same island. On May 
25th, 1893, I found seven eggs in a nest built on an island ina 
small lake north of Rush Lake. A Canada Goose had nested on 
this island for several years. It is a remarkable fact that in 
Alberta this goose often lays its eggs in the nests of Buzzards. 
Mr. Neuman sent me a set of five eggs he took from a Buzzard’s 
nest on April 25th, 1896. The nest was built in a dead cotton- 
wood tree 45 feet from the ground and the bird was flushed off 
the nest and shot. I have a photograph of the nest. (Razne.) 
This species is one of the earliest to arrive in the Northwest. 
It was first seen in 1894 at Medicine Hat on April 7th, by Spread- 
borough, and was common by the 16th. It seems to have no 
fixed place to breed as it has been found nesting on old musk-rat 
houses in marshes, on masses of dead reeds, in Buzzards’ nests 
on low trees along streams, and in two instances it nested in trees 
at least forty feet from the ground. In one case the nest was in 
that of a Fish Hawk, in the other in an old nest of the Bald eagle. 
Also breeding on rocks along Milk River, Alberta. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One fine specimen taken at Indian Head, Assa., in May 1894, 
and another purchased with the Holman collection. 
Four eggs taken at Crane Lake, June oth, 1894. Two taken on 
Whale River, Ungava Bay, Labrador, June 11th, 1896, by Mr. G. 
Boucher. 
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