452 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. . 
Chimo. (Spreadborough.) Taken at Disco, Greenland, where 
they were breeding 1891. Common in northeastern Labrador 
after August 3rd. Breed about Nachvak and northwest to 
Hudson Strait. South of Nachvak they occur only as migrants. 
(Witmer Stone.) Rather common Io miles north of Fort Churchill, 
on the shores of Button Bay, where an immature bird was taken 
July 31st, 1900. Abundant on the ‘ barren grounds ” south of Cape 
Eskimo, August 4th. (Edward A. Prebles.) Not uncommon in 
Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Some specimens shot at Cole Harbor, 
Nova Scotia. (Dowzs.) Occurs in winter at Grand Manan, New 
Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. ( Clarke.) 
Only one specimen taken at Prince of Wales Sound, Hudson 
Strait, on May 14th, 1885; none others were seen. (/ayne.) 
Taken. at. Beaupoert; a winter resident in’ eastern (Ouebee: 
(Dionne.) A rare winter visitant at Montreal. This species is 
occasionally found mixing with the snowflake. (Wntle.) 
This species was first recorded at Ottawa, Ont.,in the spring of 
1890, when in company with horned larks and snowflakes. It 
remained in the flocks till May 25th. It was present again in 
the fall from Oct. 3rd to Nov. 18th. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 
V.) The only record I am aware of is that of a flock reported 
by Mr. Wm. Melville at Gravenhurst, Ont., on April 27th, 1890. 
(J. H. Fleming.) In April, 1897, I met with a small flock of 
these birds at Toronto and took two or three males in grand 
plumage; in winter they more commonly appear in company 
with the snowflakes. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) Sometimes quite 
common in the spring migrations along Lake St. Clair, but very 
rare near London; only three or four specimens all told have 
been observed. (W. E. Saunders.) 
One specimen shot on Mouse River (Souris), Dak., October Ist, 
1873. The first of the southern migration. (Coues.) Very abun- 
dant spring and fall migrant wherever there is prairie or cleared 
country. They come in countless numbers about the middle of 
May and remain to the end of the month. After this time they 
go northwest to breed and return again about the last week in 
September. They remain about two weeks in the stubble fields 
and then pass southward. (Zhompson-Seton.) Very abundant at 
Indian Head, Assa., in the spring and fall migrations; last of 
them seen at the end of May, 1892; on April 25th, 1894, a small 
