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winter plumage. They are now in Dr. Townsend's collection. As further 

 evidence of the eastward spread of the breeding range of the Prairie 

 Horned Lark, I may add that on Aug. 16, 1903, I saw a lark, doubtless 

 of this subspecies, with a spotted breast and a yellowish bill, evidently 

 in the juvenal plumage, at Natick, Mass. This bird was seen a few days 

 earlier at the same place by Mr. R. B. Worthington of Dedham, Mass. — 

 Francis H. Allen, West Roxbury, Mass. 



Moult of the" Snowflake (Passerina nivalis). — Dr. Jonathan Dwight's 

 review 1 of Mr. Frank M. Chapman's article on the 'Changes of Plumage 

 in the Snowflake' is concluded in these words: "The Snowflake is one of 

 the interesting species that undergo but one moult in the year." As 

 this species is believed not to have a spring moult — either complete or 

 partial — I will show that there is at least a partial moult. A specimen 

 in my collection, cT ad. (Smithsonian No. 100,688), April 1, 1884, Fort 

 Chima, Ungava, collected by Mr. L. M. Turner, and which I received 

 in exchange from Mr. Ridgway, clearly shows moult in a semicircle on 

 the jugulum; the auriculars were also being moulted. This specimen, 

 although taken as early as April 1 , has almost attained the adult nuptial 

 plumage. 



Another quotation from Mr. Chapman's paper by Dr. Dwight is as 

 follows: '"The male has the feathers of the head, nape and rump basally 

 white, while in the female they are basally black', — this difference holding 

 at all seasons of the year. " Upon examining the specimens of this species 

 in my collection from New York, Minnesota, Point Barrow, Alaska, and 

 Ungava, I find that the base of the feathers of the head, nape and rump 

 are the same in both sexes. — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Redpoll Breeding on the Magdalen Islands. — It may be of some 

 interest to know that a nest of a Redpoll (Acanthis linaria) was found on 

 Grosse Isle, Magdalen Islands, this year by Mr. H. H. Hann and the writer 

 of this note, while on a short trip to the Islands in June of this year. It 

 was the day before we left Grosse Isle that the nest was found, and most 

 of our belongings were packed for our homeward journey but nevertheless 

 we decided to spend this last day, June 29, on the hill a little to the east 

 of the settlement. About one third the way up this hill, amid the spruce 

 trees, we discovered a small nest in a spruce about six feet from the ground. 

 It was placed near the trunk of the tree and was a dainty affair, neat and 

 rather compact, composed of coarse grass and a goodly quantity of deer 

 moss lined with feathers, about three and one half inches in diameter, 

 and containing four young birds four or five days old. After we had 

 waited there for some time both parent birds returned to the nest. There 

 was no mistake in the identification of these active little birds, with their 



" 'The Auk,' Vol. XIII, April, 1896, pp. 165, 166. 



