2 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
B.C., May 2nd, 1904. (Spreadborough.) Several seen at Bocade- 
quadra, near Dixon inlet, B.C., May 28th, 1899. (Bzshop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Fairly numerous on Buffalo lake, Alberta, 
July 7th, 1895; downy young taken at thesame time. (Dzfpie.) 
I have found this bird breeding at Shoal lake, Manitoba. The 
nests found June 18th, 1894, mostly contained five eggs each. 
(Raine.) Early in June, 1894, a large colony of these birds was 
found breeding at Crane lake, Sask., about 100 miles east of 
Medicine Hat. The colony was located in a large patch of bull- 
rushes (Scevpus lacustris) about 100 yards from the shore and in 
about three feet of water. The eggs were placed on nests made 
of mud and the old and broken reeds of the last season; these 
nests were very rudimentary in form, but in all cases there was a 
slight depression in the centre where the eggs rested, about six 
inches above the water. None of the nests had more than five 
eggs, most of them but four, which seemed to be the usual num- 
ber. The nests were so placed that they would rise and fall with 
the water, as indeed is the case with all grebes. No other birds 
were breeding in the vicinity and the water around the breeding 
ground was swarming with individuals which dived, swam, or sunk 
themselves in the water so that nothing but their curving necks 
and long sharp bills protruded above it. They doubtless breed on 
many other lakes in Saskatchewan and Alberta. It is claimed to 
be a summer resident in British Columbia by Streator and Fannin, 
but neither of them cites a locality. Found in 1881 in great num- 
bers breeding in some of the western bays of Lake Manitoba and 
on Waterhen river and Waterhen lake. 
II. COLYMBUS  Linne#vs. 
2. Red-necked Grebe. Holbcell Grebe. 
Colymbus holbeliit (REINH.) Ripew. 1884. 
This is a very widely distributed species and extends asa strag- 
gler from Greenland across the continent to the North Pacific. 
This bird arrived in Wales sound, Hudson strait, about 
June 20th, 1885, and was often seen during the summer. (Payne.) 
Common in northern part of James bay. (Spreadborough.) It is 
arare migrant in Nova Scotia (Downs); occasionally seen in New 
