CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 655 
during the fall migration. (Stveator.) East and west of Coast Range, 
abundant; found throughout some winters on Vancouver Island. 
(Fannin.) Common migrant through the Fraser valley at Chilli- 
wack; breeds above the timber line on the Coast Range. (Lrooks.) 
Province of British Columbia at large; breeding sparsely on the 
plateaus and mesas of the interior up to 4000 feet. (Rhoads.) 
Very common at Sumas Lake, Lulu Island and Matasqui Prairie 
B.C., in September, 1894. (4.7. G. White.) This species arrives 
at Unalaska early in May and by the Igth had eggs on the hillsides. 
They seem to breed along the whole coast of northern Alaska and 
on many of the islands in Behring Sea. (Ve/son.) This species occurs 
throughout the territory of Alaska, including the Aleutian Islands. 
It is found in the greatest abundance in the interior of the main- 
land, especially at Fort Yukon; it rarely visits St. Michael except 
in the fall. (Zurvner.) A pair seenon a grassy tide-flat beyond 
Indian River at Sitka, Alaska, on June roth and the female 
secured; from the condition of the ovaries, I judged that it would 
have laid eggs within a week. (Gvinmnell.) A bird thought to be 
this species was seen on a snow field in the mountains of Moresby 
Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., on June 23rd, 1900; com- 
paratively few pipits were seen around Cook’s Inlet, Alaska; one 
specimen was taken at Tyonek, September 18th. (Osgood.) 
BREEDING NorteEs.—I have sets taken by F. F. Payne at Cape 
Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait, in June, 1886; also sets taken at 
Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, June 30th, 1895, by Lambert Dicks, as 
well as sets taken at Nachvak, Labrador, June 15th, 1897; the 
Rev. I. O. Stringer found a nest and five eggs at Peel River, near 
the mouth of the Mackenzie River, June 25th, tgoo0, this was built 
of dried grass on the ground. (W. Raine.) 
A male taken at Skagway, June 3rd, was probably a belated 
migrant; on the heights above Glacier, Osgood saw several, June 
5th, and we found them common at Summit, June I1-13; a female 
taken, June 13th was laying, and a fresh but empty nest I found 
the same day I attributed to this species, no other being near ; 
this nest was loosely formed of fine dry grass in a hollow in the 
deep moss which covered the almost perpendicular side of a 
boulder lying ona hill high above Summit, only a small hole for 
entrance showing in the moss. We often saw the song-flight at 
- Summit; launching himself with a sharp preliminary “ chip ” 
from one of the granite boulders that abound there, the male 
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