CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 5 
Brooks found it on Okanagan lake, B.C. during the whole winter. 
The writer has found it breeding from Manitoba to Kamloops in 
British Columbia, so that its breeding ground covers practically 
the whole northern part of the continent. Spreadborough saw it 
on most of the small lakes between Lesser Slave lake and Peace 
River Landing in 1903, saw three on Elkriver, B.C., April, 22nd, 
1904, common at Bayne lake, May toth, 1904, and at Douglas, 
B.C., April, 1906. Nearly all had left the latter place by May Ioth. 
BREEDING Notes.—Breeds commonly around all small lakes in 
Alberta. (Dzppie.) Common at Crane lake in June, 1894. Breed- 
ing in pairs in all the marshes and sloughs. Nests composed of 
reeds, grass and mud, attached to the reeds, or on floating masses 
of sticks and sedges. They were also common at Indian Head, 
Sask., and at Bracebridge, Ont. (Spreadborough.) On June 15th, 
1893, I found a colony of this grebe nesting on an island in a small 
lake seven miles north of Rush lake, Sask.; I have also found it 
breeding at Long lake and Shoal lake, Manitoba. This species 
lays from five to eight eggs, five or six being the usual number. 
A few pairs breed at St. Clair flats, Ont. Ihave received several 
clutches of eggs from there. (Raime.) Breeding on all ponds 
and marshes near Prince Albert, Sask. (Cowbeaux.) Breeds on 
interior lakes of B.C. as far south as Ashcroft. (2oads.) 
This most beautiful of the grebe family is generally distributed 
about the marshes and ponds all over Manitoba and was noted 
quite as abundantly at every suitable point along the Grand 
Trunk Pacific railway as far as Edmonton. Nests containing 
fresh eggs were found at Sydney, Carberry, Hamiota and Spy 
hill while from that westward after July Ist the chicks and 
parent birds were noted in almost every fresh water pond or 
marsh. (Geo. Atkinson.) 
This is a northern species, and rarely breeds in the St. Lawrence 
valley. I found a nest containing two fresh eggs at Escott pond, 
Leeds co., Ont., 29th May, 1890; also four eggs at the St. Law- 
rence on the 18th June, 1896. On the occasion of my visit to 
the Magdalen islands, in June, 1897, I met with three pairs of 
this bird in a large pond of water—which at times is brackish— 
near the East point, and discovered a nest with two fresh eggs on 
June 22nd. This nest exactly resembled the one I found on Escott 
