4 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANAD^. 



Breeding Nctes. — Common at Indian Head, Sask., in the spring 

 x)i 1892. Breeding in pairs in the reeds along the margins of the 

 'iakes. Early in June a nest was taken containing eight eggs of a 

 dirty white colour. Nests made of reeds, grass and mud, floating 

 in the water, attached to the growing reeds or masses of dead 

 vegetable matter. (Spreadborough?) Breeds along the margin of 

 Snake lake. Alberta. {Dippie.) At Shoal lake, Manitoba, on 

 June 9th, 1894, I found this species breeding abundantly. The 

 ■nests contained an average of five eggs each. All the nests had 

 the eggs covered with weeds, which is the usual habit of this 

 ■family, for all the grebes cover their eggs in the daytime, but 

 when suddenly disturbed from their nests the birds have not time 

 to take this precaution. Two or three pairs breed on Long lake, 

 Manitoba, and this species also breeds abundantly at Gull lake, 

 northern Alberta {Raine.) My notes record but two nests of this 

 :grebe, one contained four and the other five eggs, and both were 

 found at a distance of some40or 50 miles south of Fort Anderson. 

 •{Macfarlafie.) 



3. Horned Grebe. 



Colymbus auritus Linn. 1766. 



A few immature specimens have been taken in southern Green- 

 land. {Arc(. Man.,) Taken occasionally in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) 

 An uncomnion summer visitant in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain) 

 A few taken in Quebec. {Dionne.) One seen in a small pond at 

 East point, Magdalen islands, N.S., 1887; undoubtedly breeds. 

 ■{Bishop) Rather common at Plover Mills, Ont., in September and 

 October. {R. Elliott.) Common resident in spring and fall near 

 Toronto, Ont. {J. H. Fleming) Generally distributed in Ontario, 

 •breeding notably on St. Clair flats. {Mclllwraith) 



Saunders and Morden found this bird breeding abundantly at 

 St. Clair flats, Ontario. Seton says it is very common in Mani. 

 toba, breeding in all the small ponds, and Macfarlane procured 

 •eggs on the borders of a small lake about 60 miles southeast of 

 Fort Anderson, north of the Arctic circle. Dr. Bell found it 

 breeding at Fort Churchill on Hudson bay, and Nelson and Turner 

 -say that it breeds in Alaska. Several small grebes assumed to be 

 this species were seen at the upper end of Becharof lake by 

 Osgood ; McKay, took a specimen at Nushagak, Alaska, 1881. 



