

rilAITKi: Mil 



I Mi, Tin- In-iii.; my li 



'i. l.'.l to return in tli.- evening i M 

 jaw. I \\ i. .11 after Li- in It-. I 



tin- hilly prairies -oiith \ Rush I^ike. My tiiM 

 find was a nest of tin- -harp-tailed ^P-IIS.- with ' 



Tin- l.inl was Mushed from a patch 

 id tin- !! a hollow in th<- ground, lined with 



.1 feathers. 'I'll- deep ta\\ ny liilti'. speckled 



with darker l.rown. Soon at't>-rwar<ls I found u m-st <-t' Mr 

 on^jHir containing thr.-t- eggs: these eggs wen- ifivy 

 i>h whitf. 1'loU-hi-il with dark jmrplish In-own. Sa\\ a turkt-y 

 l.ii/./at-d and i ]>air of marsh harrit-rs ; Loth sj'i-ri.^ . '\ idi-ntly 

 had m-sts closi- l.y I. ut I coul<l not Hnd tin-in. 1 wa> disaj- 

 j.oint.-d at not finding th.- snowy owl around Hush Lak.- 



int'ornn-d l.y Mardonald and others that tln-y w.-r- occa- 

 ^ionally s.-.-n. ami was shown a tint- stutii-d sj.-ciiii.-n at tl,- 

 .oii-hoii^f that was shot lat- in the .sjring of 1HM> : thi- 

 linl wa> a t'.-mal.-. Though tln-y an- occasionally s.-.-u in 

 l.'ush L-ikc. tln-y In-conic more pl.-ntiful in tin- fall 

 and winter wln-n the ducks and i^eese are mi^i-atin^ -outh. 

 Macdonald. who has sj.ent some veal's in tin- North Saskatche- 

 wan ii- i n. -t of this l.inl. Lilt he has seen tin- l.irds 



. that it is proK-iMe a few snowy owls do not 

 tire to within tin- arctic circle to Lived, l.ut m-st furtln-i 



bl on tin- marshy j.rairie-, of Manitoba and Atvsini! 



almost reaching; tin- northern l.ordt-r of the I'nited Stat<-s. It 



i- ]>rol.ahly i O tin- Kland of Anticosti. in 



the (lull' SH 1 . i-eiice, as it certainly din-s in Lil.radoi 



and N. u toiuidland. It i nlao recoixled as a rare summer 



i.-nt around Lakes Winnipeg and Manitol-a. In (- 



llritaiu, an instance iv recorded of its l.i UanH'. in 



and The i lining young Kinlswas found 1>\ 



