544 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
southern trip about the middle of September. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) 
Regular spring migrant at Toronto, Ont. (J. H. Fleming.) Regular 
but rare migrant at London, Ont.; recorded sometimes as fairly 
common in a few localities. (W. E. Saunders.) 
Observed in large numbers during the latter part of September 
and beginning of October along the Mouse (Souris).river. (Cowes.) 
A rare spring and winter migrant at Carberry, Man. Nesting in the 
vicinity of Fort Resolution, Mackenzie. (E. T. Seton.) Rare at 
Aweme, Man., probably breeds. (Criddle.) A rare and tolerably com- 
mon summer resident in Manitoba but not noted breeding. (Atkinson.) 
Rather common, July 13th to 16th, at York Factory, where three speci- 
mens were collected. (E. A. Preble.) Only noted as a spring migrant 
at Indian Head, Sask.; they were first seen May 13th, 1892, and left 
again in a few days ; only a few were observed at Old Wives creek 
in 1895, but none were seen on the prairie at any place; they were 
not rare and breeding in the bushes at Banff in 1891; first observed 
at Edmonton, Alta. on May 5th, 1897, on June 1st found a nest on 
the ground in a bunch of grass, nest made of dried grass, eggs five, 
quite fresh; common in the foothills from Calgary southward to 
Crow Nest pass; found a nest with four fresh eggs, June 28th, nest 
same as first; abundant from Edmonton to Lesser Slave lake and 
Peace River Landing, lat. 56° 15,’ 1903; seen everywhere between 
Edmonton and Yellowhead pass in low bushes in June, 1898; quite 
common at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and on the Columbia 
south to Robson, where they were seen again in 1902, they were 
breeding in low thickets; common at Penticton, south of Lake 
Okanagan, B.C., on April 28th, 1903. (Spreadborough.) North to 
Fort Simpson, on Mackenzie river; not rare. (Ross.) Common 
during the autumnal migrations. (Streator.) Regular summer 
visitor. (Lord.) Found east and west of Coast range. (Fannzn.) 
At Nulato this bird is rare, but thence it becomes more and more 
numerous towards the east and at Fort Yukon it is considerably 
more abundant. (Nelson.) Mr. Rhoads in The Auk, Vol. X, p. 21, 
says that he cannot see any difference between specimens of this 
species taken on Vancouver island and those taken in Pennsyl- 
vania, and on this account he rejects striata, which is based on 
Vancouver island specimens. (Macoun.) Two or three pairs 
breed in the grassy margin of the pond back of Sitka, Alaska. 
