CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 489 
was received. Only one specimen was obtained. (Richardson.) 
North to Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie river; rather rare. (Ross.) 
Very abundant in the country to the eastward of Fort Anderson in 
the “barren grounds,’’ and on the lower Anderson river. (Mac- 
jarlane.) This species has been taken at Fort Yukon by Strachan 
Jones but there‘is no other record of its having been taken in Alaska. 
(Nelson.) One male secured at Point Barrow, Alaska, June 11th, 
1898. (Watmer Stone.) 
BREEDING Notes.—This bird breeds abundantly on the slopes 
of the Cariboo hills, 80 miles south of the Arctic coast west of the 
Mackenzie river delta. Here Mr. Stringer found several nests in 
June, 1897. They were built on the ground in grassy hummocks 
and contained from 4 to 6 eggs in each, which somewhat resemble 
eggs of the Lapland longspur, except that they have a paler ground- 
colour. Ten nests before me are all made of dry grass and well 
lined with feathers. (W. Raine.) 
538. Chestnut-collared Longspur. 
Calcarius ornatus (TOWNS.) STEJN. 1882. 
These birds were not noticed in the immediate vicinity of Red 
river, but I had no sooner passed the Pembina mountains than I 
found them in profusion; from thence they extend in more or less 
abundance to the Rocky mountains. (Cowes.) A common summer 
resident in Manitoba, local in distribution, many pairs affecting a 
limited area of dry prairie, while for miles no more of this species 
are to be seen. One seen on the shore of Aylmer lake, Great Slave 
cakes district, August sth) 1907. (2.,1., Seon.) Common, at 
Aweme, Man., nesting in colonies on the ‘open prairies. (Criddle.) 
Abundant all over Manitoba as a migrant. Breeds sparingly in 
some districts; much more numerous westward. Observed breeding: 
in 1906 from Forest, Man. to Edmonton, Alta. (Atkinson.) First 
seen at Indian Head, Sask., May 12th, 1892, by the 18th they were 
common; they breed there in great numbers; very common at Crane 
lake; seen in large flocks flying in company with McCown’s bunt- 
ing at Medicine Hat, May 2nd, 1894; breeding in large numbers 
at Crane lake in June; found three nests with young and one with 
four fresh eggs June 12th, 1894; the nest was a rather deep hole in the 
