CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 455 
coast, this bird was common. Its song was heard for a few days 
after our arrival, June gth, but ceased altogether after the 16th. 
The first juveniles, full-grown, were seen on July 30th. In 1899, 
apparently a much earlier season, many nearly-fledged young 
were noted on July Ist. From August Ist to 12th, 1898, juveniles 
were plentiful in the vicinity of the mission. They were in small 
companies or scattered singly in the edge of the tall grass border- 
ing the beaches. The tendency at this season seemed for them 
to be gathering into flocks, and on the 11th, the last day of our 
stay on the sound, I sawa flock of about 25. I last saw the 
Alaskan longspur in 1898 on the 16th of August ; it was on our 
way up the Kowak, and at a point about 100 miles from the 
mouth. A small jcompany flew across the river in front of our 
steamer in a southerly direction. In the spring of ’99, on the 
Kowak, the first longspurs were noted on the 20th of May. In 
this region they inhabit the bare level stretches of tundra, extend- 
ing at intervals from the river back to the foot-hills. On June 
Ist I secured a nest and five fresh eggs. The nest was embedded 
in the moss under an overhanging clump of dead grass, and con- 
sisted of fine dry grasses, with a lining of dark feathers of ptarmi- 
gan and short-eared owls. The diameter of the nest cavity 2°50, 
with a depth of 1'oc. The eggs are nearly oblong-ovate in shape 
and measure °87 x *60, °86 x ‘61, ‘84 x ‘60, ‘86 x ‘60,°85 x ‘61. Their 
ground-colour, as disclosed for a limited space at the small ends of 
two eggs, is very pale blue. Otherwise the eggs are so completely 
covered with pigment as to be almost uniform isabella colour. 
Overlying this are scattered scrawls and dots of bistre. I found 
another nest on Chamisso Island on the gth July. This was 
similarly located and contained four eggs in which incubation 
was nearly completed. ( Grinnell.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One set of five eggs with nest taken on St. Paul Island, Behring 
Sea, June 20th, 1897 by Mr. eae: Macoun. Nest made of dried 
fibres of small rootlets and grass, with an inner lining of grass 
mixed with a little hair. 
537. Smith’s Longspur. 
Calcarius pictus (SWAINS.) STEJN. 1882. 
Rather common in the meadows at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, 
July 23rd to 30th, 1900. They were quite tame, but hard to see 
