CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 485 
Some specimens shot at Cole Harbor, Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Oy curs 
in winter at Grand Manan, New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Taken 
at Beauport; a winter resident in eastern Quebec. (Dionne.) A 
rare winter visitant at Montreal. This species is occasionally 
found mixing with the snowflake. (Wznile.) 
This species was first recorded at Ottawa, Ont., in the spring of 
1890, when in company with horned larks and snowflakes. It 
remained in the flocks till May 25th. It was present again in the 
fall from October 3rd to November 18th. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 
V.) Irregular winter resident at Toronto, Ont. The only record 
I am aware of is that of a flock reported by Mr. Wm. Melville at 
Gravenhurst, Ont., on April 27th, 1890. (J. H. Fleming.) In April, 
1897, I met with a small flock of these birds at Toronto, and took 
two or three males in grand plumage; in winter they more 
commonly appear in company with the snowflakes. (/J. Hughes- 
Samuel.) Sometimes quite common in the spring migrations along 
Lake St. Clair, but very rare near London; only three or four speci- 
mens all told have been observed. (W. E. Saunders.) 
One specimen shot on Mouse river (Souris), Dak., October rst, 
1873. .The first of the southern migration. (Cowes.) Very abun- 
dant spring and fall migrant wherever there is prairie or cleared 
country. They come in countless numbers about the middle of 
May and remain to the end of the month. After this time they 
go northwest to breed and return again about the last week in 
September. They remain about two weeks in the stubble fields 
and then pass ‘southward. (E. T. Seton.) Abundant migrant 
at Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) Very abundant at Indian Head, 
Sask., in the spring and fall migrations; last of them seen at 
the end of May, 1892; on April 25th, 1894, a small flock was 
seen at Crane lake, Sask.; abundant as a migrant at Edmonton, 
Alta., from April 28th to May 5th, 1897. (Spreadborough.) In 
the year 1827 it appeared on the plains of the Saskatchewan at 
Carlton House about the middle of May and remained for about 
ten days. They came to Cumberland House about the same time 
and -remained in the furrows of a newly ploughed field. In the 
preceding year they were seen, though in smaller flocks, at Fort 
Franklin, lat. 654°, in the beginning of May; the crops of those 
killed were filled with the seeds of Arctostaphylos alpina. (Richard- 
