CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. : 687 
A male taken at Skagway, June 3rd, was probably a belated 
migrant; on the heights above Glacier, Osgood saw several, June 
5th, and we found them common at Summit, June 11-13; a female 
taken, June 13th, was laying, and a fresh but empty nest I found the 
same day I attributed to this species, no other being near; the nest 
was loosely formed of fine dry grass in a hollow in the deep moss 
which covered the almost perpendicular side of a boulder lying on 
a hill high above Summit, only a small hole for entrance showing 
in the moss. We often saw the song-flight at Summit; launching 
himself with a sharp preliminary ‘“‘chip’’ from one of the granite 
boulders that abound there, the male would rise rapidly to a height 
of a hundred feet or more, uttering a sweet, clear song; after poising 
high in air and repeating this song for several minutes the singer 
would slowly float toward earth and alight 100 yards from where 
he started, soon to repeat the same performance; we found a pair 
on the heights above Bennett, June 17th, and a few, possibly mem- 
bers of one family, at Circle, August 15-20. (Bzshop.) 
698. Meadow Pipit. 
Anthus pratensis (LINN.) BECHST. 1807. 
Received in Copenhagen by Dr. Paulsen from Greenland in 1845. 
(Arct. Man.) 
699. Red-throated Pipit. 
Anthus cervinus (PALL.) KEys & BLAs. 1840. 
A specimen of this bird was obtained in Greenland in 1845 and 
makes the second record. (Turner.) This species was accredited 
to the Aleutian islands in 1853; and Dall records a specimen which 
was obtained at St. Michael during the Russian telegraph expedition. 
(Nelson.) } 
700. Sprague Pipit. 
Anthus spraguew (AuD.) BatRD. 1864. 
Found breeding in great numbers on the prairie near Turtle moun- 
tain and Mouse (Souris) river. (Cowes.) A common summer 
resident on the elevated prairies in the south and’ west of Manitoba 
in 1882. In 1892 I failed to see or hear a single individual in the 
