CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 397 
A specimen of this form was shot at Chateau bay, southern 
Labrador, on July 14, 1891, which was possibly a straggler, but 
may indicate that this form is a regular summer visitant to all 
eastern Quebec and the Straits of Belle Isle. (Norton.) A com- 
mon summer resident in the Montreal district. They have been 
found breeding here before the winter’s snow has melted off the 
ground; they arrive in February and leave in November. (Wzntle.) 
Occasional at Quebec. (Dionne.) A common summer resident 
in the Ottawa district; it arrives before the end of February and 
remains all summer to breed, and leaves about the beginning of 
November. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) An abundant, breeding, 
summer resident in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. The 
date of its first appearance at Port Sydney, as given by Mr. Kay, 
was 1887. (/. H. Fleming.) Summer resident at Scotch Lake, 
York county, N.B. (W.H- Moore.) Reaching us during the early 
days of February, these birds soon became very abundant. On 
February 20, 1900, they were especially so ‘along the lake shore, 
and wherever a patch of weeds was in evidence above the snow 
dozens of the birds were hurrying to and fro clearing up all the 
seeds and enlivening the scene with merry little snatches of song. 
(J. Hughes-Samuel.) 
This is a common summer resident in Manitoba, breeding freely 
olsene, open prairie: +) (2. 1) Seton.) | Phere are probably three or 
four forms of horned larks in Manitoba The form I have been in 
the habit of calling praticola arrives at Aweme about February 24th 
and departs about November 13th, a few being seen at intervals 
through the winter. Two specimens of praticola were determined 
for me by the United States Biological Survey; these were shot early 
in March. Another form arrives with the Lapland longspur. This 
I have been in the habit of calling the desert horned lark. (Criddle.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—This sub-species arrives in February and 
March, and continues all summer. Early in February this year 
(1901) I saw a number of horned larks on the ice between Kingston 
and Wolfe island; they are often in company with snow buntings; 
the first prairie horned larks I saw on February 17th, (3), and one 
on February 28th near the head of Wolfe island. They are tamer 
and more familiar birds than the northern variety, and are now 
breeding commonly in Ontario. In the townships of Lansdowne 
