CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 453 
Abundant resident ; more common east of Coast Range. (Fannin.) 
Rare migrant at Chilliwack; common in the winter at Okanagan 
lake and in the Cariboo district, B.C. (Brooks.) 
This species is a summer resident in all northern Alaska and 
extends its summer wanderings to the northern islands off the 
coast of the Arctic sea. (Nelson.) This bird may be seen at St. 
Michael, or its vicinity, at any season of the year, except the coldest 
weather in midwinter. (Turner.) This species and the Lapland 
longspur are the commonest passerine birds, and in fact the only 
ones which could be said to be common at Point Barrow. (Mur- 
doch.) Choris peninsula and Cape Lowenstern, Alaska. A rather 
rare species around Kotzebue sound, but two pairs were seen that 
had young. (Grinnell). A series of 43 specimens, all from Point 
Barrow, Alaska, corresponds excellently with a series of Greenland 
birds obtained by the Peary expedition. (Wztmer Stone.) One 
specimen was shot at White pass summit on June r2th. At St. 
Michael I saw two ift September, and numbers on St. George island, 
Behring sea. (Bishop.) An adult male taken by Anderson at 
Herendeen bay, Alaska peninsula, is clearly to be referred to navalis 
rather than to townsendi. (Chapman.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have a set of four eggs that were taken by 
F. F. Payne at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson strait, June 2oth, 
1886. On June 25th, 1901, a snow bunting built its nest in a hole 
under the eave of Mr. Stringer’s house on Herschell island in the 
Arctic Ocean, west of the mouth of Mackenzie bay; on June 18th 
he found another nest and eggs on the ground in a hollow at the 
side of a hummock. (W. Raine.) Nests everywhere in the north; 
nests usually made of grass and feathers, usually hidden beneath a 
large boulder. (A. P. Low.) 
534a. Pribilof Snowflake. 
Passerina nivalis townsendt (RipGwW.) Ruipcw. 1898. 
This species was described from specimens taken by myself at 
St. Michael, and by Mr. McKay at Nushagak, Bristol bay. At 
both localities the bird appeared only as a migrant. (Nelson.) 
Aleutian islands, including Pribilof islands, and Shumagin islands. 
(Ridgway.) 
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