4 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
BREEDING Nc TES.—Common at Indian Head, Sask., in the spring 
of 1892. Breeding in pairs in the reeds along the margins of the 
lakes. Early in June a nest was taken containing eight eggs of a 
dirty white colour. Nests made of reeds, grass and mud, floating | 
in the water, attached to the growing reeds or masses of dead 
vegetable matter. (Spveadborough.) Breeds along the margin of 
Snake lake, Alberta. (Dzppie.) At Shoal lake, Manitoba, on 
June goth, 1894, 1 found this species breeding abundantly. The 
nests contained an average of five eggs each. All the nests had 
the eggs covered with weeds, which is the usual] habit of this 
family, for all the grebes cover their eggs in the daytime, but 
when suddenly disturbed from their nests the birds have not time 
to take this precaution. Two or three pairs breed on Long lake, 
Manitoba, and this species also breeds abundantly at Gull lake, 
northern Alberta (Razne.) My notes record but two nests of this 
grebe, one contained four and the other five eggs, and both were 
found at adistance of some 40 or 50 miles south of Fort Anderson, 
(Mactarlane.) 
3. Horned Grebe. 
Colymbus auritus LINN. 1766. 
A few immature specimens have been taken in southern Green- 
land. (Arct. Man.,) Taken occasionally in NovaScotia. (Dozys.) 
An uncommon summer visitant in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) 
A few taken in Quebec. (Dzonmne.) One seen in a small pond at 
East point, Magdalen islands, N.S., 1887; undoubtedly breeds. 
(Bishop.) Rathercommon at Plover Mills, Ont., in September and 
October. (R. Eliott.) Common resident in spring and fall near 
Toronto, Ont. (/.H. Mleming.) Generally distributed in Ontario, 
breeding notably on St. Clair flats. (Mcl///wraith.) 
Saunders and Morden found this bird breeding abundantly at 
St. Clair flats, Ontario. Seton says it is very common in Mani- 
toba, breeding in all the small ponds, and Macfarlane procured 
eggs on the borders of a small lake about 60 miles southeast of 
Fort Anderson, north of the Arctic circle. Dr. Bell found it 
breeding at Fort Churchill on Hudson bay, and Nelsonand Turner 
say that it breeds in Alaska. Several small grebes assumed to be 
this species were seen at the upper end of Becharof lake by 
Osgood ; McKay, took a specimen at Nushagak, Alaska, 1881. 
