424 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA 
Toronto, Ont. One of the species that is finding its way northward; 
it is only a new arrival in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. 
I saw a female at Emsdale in May, 1899; she was seen later in the 
summer with a male and a brood of young. Mr. Taverner saw the 
first one at Beaumaris in August, 1897, and reported them as in- 
creasing in 1898. (J. H. Fleming.) In spite of the slaughter of 
these birds in the rice fields it is yet common in the London district; 
it is more rare in the Bruce peninsula, and a few were noted on 
Manitoulin island in 1880. (W. E. Saunders.) 
Generally distributed and breeding abundantly in all the mea- 
dows about Manitoba and observed in considerable numbers as far 
west as Touchwood hills, Sask. (Atkinson.) Formerly breeding 
in great abundance at Aweme, Man., but now only noted as a mi- 
grant though it breeds in a bog south of Sewell and also in marshy 
places near Rounthwait. (Criddle.) Saw one bird at Crane lake, 
Sask. (A.C. Bent.) 
At Pembina in June, bobolinks were breeding in large numbers 
on the open prairie adjoining the Red river. The ground near the 
river has a meadowy character, which seems exactly to suit them, 
and they were evidently perfectly at home. On lat. 49° I traced 
the species westward to the Rocky mountains, where it was not 
uncommon in August about Chief Mountain lake. (Cowes.) A very 
common species throughout the prairie portions of Manitoba. 
(E. T. Seton.) Quite common at Indian Head in eastern Saskat- 
chewan in the fall of 1891, as well as in May of the next year; west 
of that it must be rare as only a few specimens were noted at the 
east end of the Cypress hills in June, 1894; none were seen in 1895 
until Lees creek was reached in southern Alberta. (Spreadborough.) 
Uncommon and seen just now only about Duck lake and Carlton 
between the forks of the Saskatchewan. (Coubeaux.) This bird 
reaches its northern limit about Jat. 54° and does not seem to go 
very far north of the Saskatchewan. (Rzchardson.) 
BREEDING NoTes.—Nest near stone quarry at Ottawa, Ont., built 
on the ground, composed of grass and lined with fine grass. Eggs 
four, bluish white spotted with dark chocolate. (G. R. White.) 
Very common about Kingston, Ont. Breeds abundantly on Wolfe, 
Simcoe and Amherst islands, as well as on the main shore. Isa late 
breeder; I have found eggs as late as July 1st, but these, of course, 
ae 
