484 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA 
35. McKay Snowflake. 
Passerina hyperborea (RipGw.) Ripcw. 1898. 
Western Alaska, breeding on Hall island, (and probably St. 
Matthew island) Behring sea. (A. O. U. Check-List.) Two speci- 
mens of this rare bird were recently sent. to me from Bethel, 90 
miles up the Kuskokwin river, in the western part of Alaska. This 
is probably the farthest inland at which the bird has yet been found. 
(Witmer Stone in The Auk, Vol. XV., 269, 1898.) Hall island, 
Behring sea, Aug. 4th, 1891. They were in large numbers on the 
beach and appeared to be breeding in the cliffs. (J. M. Macoun.) 
CCXVIII. CALCARIUS BeEcustTEIN. 1803. 
536. Lapland Longspur. 
Calcarius lapponicus (LINN.) STEJN. 1882. 
Breeds generally throughout Greenland as well as on the Melville 
peninsula and other lands to the westward of Davis strait. (Arct. 
Man.) Abundant at Fort Chimo, Labrador. Breeds near the 
mouth of the Koaksoak river and on the larger islands. (Packard.) 
Found everywhere along with the snowflake north of Hudson bay. 
First noted at Fullerton in the spring of 1904 during the last week 
in May. (A. P. Low.) One observed on a small island in James 
bay, June 15th, 1896; not seen again until September; then I saw 
them in large numbers on the barren ground below Fort Chimo. 
Observed a pair at East point, James bay, July 9th, 1903, appa- 
rently breeding. Common in the latter part of August from Cape 
Henrietta Maria to Albany. (Spreadborough.) Taken at Disco, 
Greenland, where they were breeding 1891. Common in north- 
eastern Labrador after August 3rd. Breed about Nachvak and 
northwest to Hudson strait. South of Nachvak they occur only as 
migrants. (Witmer Stone.) Rather common 10 miles north of 
Fort Churchill, on the shores of Button bay, where an immature 
bird was taken July 31st, 1900. Abundant on the “‘barren grounds”’ 
south of Cape Eskimo, August 4th. (Edward A. Preble.) Fort 
Churchill, Hudson bay. (Clarke.) Only one specimen taken at Prince 
of Wales sound, Hudson strait, on May 14th, 1885; none others 
were seen. (Payne.) Not uncommon in Newtoundland. (Reeks.) 
