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associates. It retiresto the marshy and eastern wooded districts 
to breed, extending its range to the shores of the Arctic 
Sea. (Richardson.) Throughout Alaska this species appears 
to be very rare. Two specimens were taken in the vicinity of St. 
Michael during my residence there, and three were secured on 
the upper Yukon. All these were young males. It is much 
more common on the upper Yukon in spring and summer than 
along the shores of Behring Sea, where it can only be counted 
a very rare straggler. (Velson.) A single specimen of this bird 
was brought to me by a native who said he had just killed it at 
Egg Island, a few miles from the village of St. Michael. (Zurner.) 
East of and including the Coast Range; I have taken it on the 
summit. (/a@maim.) Common spring and autumn migrant at 
Chilliwack, B.C. (Srooks.) This species arrives before the first of 
April at Indian Head, Assa., but in what numbers it is hard to 
determine as the form that remains to breed may be fraticola or 
avenicola or even hoyti. The specimen in our collection was shot 
on April 12th, 1892, and on the same dav I took a specimen of 
avenicola , on April 19th 1890, another specimen was taken at 
Revelstoke, B.C., where they appeared to be common ; in April, 
I8g1, specimens were taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains. No 
specimens that proved to be this form were taken in the autumn; 
four specimens taken at Huntingdon on the boundary between 
Washington and British Columbia, in September, 1901, proved to 
be this form. It is more than probable that Dr. Dwight is correct 
when he says that this may breed on the mountains north of the 
United States boundary. (Spreadborough.) A careful reading of 
Mr. Thompson-Seton’s article on the horned lark in his “ Birds of 
Manitoba” shows that the winter bird seen in flocks is undoubt- 
edly this form. It is very probable that pratecola is a later arrival. 
Nash says “ that at Portage la Prairie praticola is a spring and fall 
visitant ; stays nearly all winter; disappears and reappears at 
intervals ; arrives about March 2oth, reappears in August, and 
departs in October.” Now to me this is exactly what a bird breed- 
ing on the “barren grounds” would do, so I conclude that this 
form is the one mentioned by Nash and included in praticola by 
Thompson-Seton. Two darker coloured specimens taken at 
Indian Head, Assa., in September,1891, and named doytz by Bishop 
are placed here. This is very likely the form that Dr. R. Bell 
found breeding at York Factory and Fort Churchill on Hudson 
Bay. (Macoun.) On May 2oth, 1893, at Rush Lake, Assiniboia, 
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