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times rears its young on lofty mountains. . A friend of mine found 
the nest on the Grampian mountains in Invernessshire, Scotland. 
(Rev. C. J. Young.) Winter migrant at Toronto, Ont., usually 
abundant. Abundant in the winter in the Parry sound and Muskoka 
districts; the last leave for the north soon after the rst of May, and 
some are back by the 1st of October. (J. H. Fleming.) A winter 
visitor at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) An abundant winter 
resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) In lat. 45°, 
Ontario, these birds occasionally remain until May 1st and then 
have practically assumed their full plumage. (W. E. Saunders.) 
Very abundant in early spring; fall and winter resident in Mani- 
toba. First seen in Great Slave lake region on the large central 
island of Clinton-Golden lake, Aug. 11, 1907; old ones with young 
of the year. After that, while we were going northward others 
were seen, evidently on their breeding grounds but it was not a 
common species. (E. T. Seton.) Abundant in winter at Aweme, 
Man. (Criddle.) An abundant winter resident in Manitoba, re- 
mains in the fields until the middle of May. (Atkinson.) Very - 
abundant in the spring and fall migrations at Indian Head, Sask. ; 
a few at Egg lake, near Peace river lat. 56°, August 30th, and at 
Lesser Slave lake, September 5th, 1903; on McLeod river northwest 
of Edmonton, Alta., saw three on October 2nd, 1898, and hundreds 
of them on the shore of Lake Ste. Anne, October 12th; very common 
at Banff in winter and doubtless eastward to Manitoba; seen at 
Revelstoke, B.C., April 9th, 1890, disappeared on the 11th. (Spread- 
borough.) This neat and elegant bird breeds in the northernmost 
of the American islands, and on all the shores of the continent, 
from Chesterfield inlet to Behring strait. The most southerly 
breeding place recorded is Southampton island in lat. 62°, where 
Captain Lyons found a nest placed in the bosom of the corpse of an 
Eskimo child. (Richardson.) North to Fort Good Hope on the 
Mackenzie; abundant. (Ross.) On the 8th July, 1864, a nest of 
this species was discovered in a small hole in a sand bank at least 
two feet from the entrance along the shores of Franklin bay. The 
parent was snared on the nest. (Macfarlane.) The snowflake is 
very abundant every winter, near Prince Albert, Sask. It arrives 
as soon as the cold and the snow appear, usually about the middle 
of October, and remains as long as the weather is cold and bad. 
(Coubeaux.) Observed at Sumas, British Columbia. (Lord.) 
