CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS, 685 
Along the 49th parallel this species is a bird of passage, but the 
second season they were found in August about Chief mountain lake, 
and no doubt those observed were bred in immediate vicinity as at 
that time the full migration had not commenced. (Cowes.) An 
abundant spring and fall migrant in Manitoba. (E. T. Seton; Atkin- 
son.) A common spring and fall migrant at Aweme, Manitoba. 
(Criddle.) This bird was observed in small flocks on the plains of 
the Saskatchewan in the spring of 1827, feeding on the larve of 
small insects. (Rzchardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mac- 
kenzie river; not common. (Ross.) I have reason to believe that 
this bird is among those that resort to the Anderson to breed, but 
no nests were found. (Macjarlane.) First seen, July 24th, on north 
shore of Great Slave lake about W. long. 110°, probably nesting; 
thence northward to Clinton—Golden lake. Very abundant in 
migration at Fort Reliance in mid-September. (FE. T. Seton.) A 
small stream of these birds kept passing Medicine Hat, Sask., from 
April 16th to May 3rd, 1894, when the last ones disappeared; found 
with their young more than half grown on Sheep mountain, close 
to Chief mountain, on the 49th parallel, at an altitude of 7,500 feet, 
July 30th, 1895; first saw a flock of about twenty at Edmonton, 
Alta., April 27th, 1897, they continued to be common to May roth, 
when all disappeared; only one observed in the Athabaska pass on 
September 29th, 1898; common on the mountains above timber 
line south of Calgary in July and in the Crow Nest pass in August; 
frequent in spring at Banff, Rocky mountains, found on the moun- 
tains around Devil lake, in August, 1891; common after April 19th, 
1890, on the flats by the Columbia river; later in the same year 
they were found on the mountains near the head of Bow river; they 
evidently breed on all the mountains above timber line; seen in 
large flocks at Trail near the 49th parallel, May 8th, 1902; seen in 
flocks at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903; found breeding on nearly 
all the mountains of the Coast and Gold ranges, B.C., near the 49th 
parallel, where there was grass, at an altitute of about 5,000 feet; 
very abundant on the shore of Sumas lake in the fall of 1901; first 
seen on Vancouver island on April 16th, 1893, they were common 
on ploughed fields by the 24th, last seen going north, May 7th; quite 
common at Clayoquot sound, Vancouver island, in September 
1907. (Spreadborough.) A single specimen was heard singing on 
Avalanche Mt., Glacier, B.C. June 24, 1906. (W. E. Saunders.) 
