CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 365 
“mon summer resident in the Montreal district. They have been 
found breeding here before the winter’s snow has melted off 
the ground ; they arrive in February and leave in November. 
(Wintle.) Occasional at Quebec. (Deonne.) A common summer 
resident in the Ottawa district ; it arrives before the end of Feb- 
ruary and remains all summer to breed, and leaves about the 
beginning of November. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol.V.) An abun- 
dant, breeding, summer resident in the Muskoka and Parry Sound 
districts. The date of its first appearance. at Port Sydney, as 
given by Mr. Kay,was 1887. (J. H. Fleming.) Summer resident 
ae scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (W. A. Moore.) Reaching us 
during the early days of February these birds soon become very 
abundant. On 20th February, 1900, they were especially so along 
the lake shore, and wherever a patch of weeds was in evidence 
above the snow dozens of the birds were hurrying to and fro 
clearing up all the -seeds and enlivening the scene with merry 
little snatches of song. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 
This is a common summer resident in Manitoba, breeding 
freelyon the open prairie. (Zhompson-Seton.) This form becomes 
very abundant early in May at Indian Head, Assa. On the goth 
of that month took a nest with three eggs; by June 2nd, young 
were able to fly. I believe they breed several times in a season. 
(Spreadborough.) 
BREEDING Notres.—This sub-species arrives in February and 
March, and continues all the summer. Early in February this 
year (1901) I saw a number of horned larks on the ice between 
Kingston and Wolfe Island; they are often in company with snow 
buntings; the first prairie horned larks I saw on Feb. 17th, (3), 
and one on Feb. 28th near the head of Wolfe Island. They are 
tamer and more familiar birds than the northern variety, and are 
now breeding commonly in Ontario. In the townships of Lans- 
downe and Escott, and around Kingston, they nest every year. 
I have found the nest with eggs, in which incubation has begun, 
as early as March 2gth, and just hatching on April 23rd, 1895. 
The usual time for laying is the first week in April, before the 
snow has all melted in the spring. I have a record of a nest on 
Wolfe Island with four eggs, on March 8th, clipped from a news- 
paper, and frequently the young birds are hatched by the middle 
of April. Three eggs is the commonest number, but I have 
found four three times, and five once, April 13th, 1899. A com- 
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