654 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
lower Hayes River as we were ascending it, August 29th. 
(£.A. Prebles.) 
Along the 49th parallel this species is a bird of passage, but the 
second season they were found in August about Chief Mountain 
Lake, and no doubt those then observed were bred in immediate 
vicinity as at that time the fall migration had not commenced. 
(Coues.) An abundant spring and fall migrant in Manitoba. 
(Thompson-Seton.) A common spring and fall migrant at Avenue, 
Manitoba. (Vorman Criddle.) A small stream of these birds kept 
passing Medicine Hat, Assa., from April 16th to May 3rd, 1894, 
when the last ones disappeared ; found with their young more than 
half grown on Sheep Mountain, close to Chief Mountain, on 
the 4gth parallel, at an altitude of 7,500 feet, July 30th, 1895; first 
saw a flock of about twenty at Edmonton, Alta., April 27th, 1897, 
they continued to be common to May Ioth, when all disappeared; 
only one observed in the Athabasca Pass on September 29th,1898; 
common on the mountains above timber line south of Calgary 
in July and in the Crow’s Nest Pass in August; frequent in spring 
at Banff, Rocky Mountains, found on the mountains around 
Devil’s Lake, in August, 1891; common after April 19th, 1899, on 
the flats by the Columbia River; later in the same year they were 
found on the mountains near the head of Bow River; they evi- 
dently breed on all the mountains above timber line; seen in 
large flocks at Trail near the 4gth parallel May 8th, 1902; seen in 
flocks at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903; found breeding on nearly 
all the mountains of the Coast and Gold ranges, B.C., near the 
49th parallel, where there was grass, at an altitude of about 
5,000 feet; very abundant on the shore of Sumas Lake in the fall 
of 1901; first seen on Vancouver Island on April 16th, 1893, they 
were common on ploughed fields by the 24th, last seen going 
north May 7th. (Spreadborough.) Found on the summit of Mount 
Finlayson near Victoria on May 17th, 1887, where they doubtless 
breed. (Macoun.) 
This bird was observed in small flocks on the plains of the 
Saskatchewan in the spring of 1827, feeding on the larve of small 
insects. (Réchardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie 
River; not common. (Ross.) Ihave reason to believe that this 
bird is among those that resort to the Anderson to breed, but no 
nests were found. (Macfarlane.) Shot east of Coast Range. (Lord.) 
Large flocks were found about the meadows of the coast district 
