450 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
was discovered in a small hole in a sand bank at least two feet 
from the entrance along the shores of Franklin Bay. The parent 
was snared on the nest. (Macfarlane.) The snowflake is 
very abundant every winter, near Prince Albert, Sask. It 
arrives as soon as the cold and the snow appear, usually 
about the middle of October, and remains as long as the weather 
is cold and bad. (Coubeaux.) Observed at Sumas, British Colum- 
bia. (Zord.) Abundant resident ; more common east of Coast 
Range. (Fannin.) Rare migrant at Chilliwack ; 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. (Velson.) This bird may be seen at St. 
Michael, or its vicinity, at any season of the year, except the 
coldest weather in midwinter. (Zzrner.) 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. (Murdoch.) Choris Peninsula and Cape Lowenstern, 
Alaska. A rather rare species around Kotzebue Sound, but 
two pairs were seen that had young. (Gyvimnell.) A series of 43 
specimens, all from Point Barrow, Alaska, corresponds excellently 
with a series of Greenland birds obtained by the Peary expedi- 
tion. (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. (zshop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have a set of four eggs that were taken 
by F. F. Payne at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait, June 2oth, 
1886. On June 25th, 1901, a snow bunting built its nest in a hole 
under the eave of Mg. Stringer’s house on Herschell Island in the 
Arctic Ocean, west of the mouth of Mackenzie Bay; on June 
18th he found another nest and eggs on the ground in a hollow 
at the side of ahummock. (W. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Sixteen ; seven taken at Ottawa, Ont., by Mr, S. Herring; four 
others taken at Ottawa by Mr. F. A. Saunders; one at Hamilton, 
Ont., by Mr. T. McIlwraith ; five at Indian Head, Assa., in April, 
1892, by Mr. Spreadborough; one in May, 1884, in the Fraser val- 
ley, B.C., by Mr. J. Fannin. 
