2 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



B.C., May 2nd, 1904. {Sfreadborough.) Several seen at Bocade- 

 quadra, near Dixon inlet, B.C., May 28th, 1899. {Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — Fairly numerous on Buffalo lake, Alberta, 

 July 7th, 1895; downy young taken at the same time. {Dippie.) 

 I have found this bird breeding at Shoal lake, Manitoba. The 

 nests found June i8th, 1894, mostly contained five eggs each. 

 {Raine.) Early in June, 1894, a large colony of these birds was 

 found breeding at Crane lake, Sask., about 100 miles east of 

 Medicine Hat. The colony was located in a large patch of bull- 

 rushes {Scirpus lacustris) about 100 yards from the shore and in 

 about three feet of water. The eggs were placed on nests made 

 of mud and the old and broken reeds of the last season; these 

 nests were very rudimentary in form, but in all cases there was a 

 slight depression in the centre where the eggs rested, about six 

 inches above the water. None of the nests had more than five 

 eggs, most of them but four, which seemed to be the usual num- 

 ber. The nests were so placed that they would rise and fall with 

 the water, as indeed is the case with all grebes. No other birds 

 were breeding in the vicinity and the water around the breeding 

 ground was swarming with individuals which dived, swam, or sunk 

 themselves in the water so that nothing but their curving necks 

 and long sharp bills protruded above it. They doubtless breed on 

 many other lakes in Saskatchewan and Alberta. It is claimed to 

 be a summer resident in British Columbia by Streator and Fannin, 

 but neither of them cites a locality. Found in 1881 in great num- 

 bers breeding in some of the western bays of Lake Manitoba and 

 on Waterhen river and Waterhen lake. 



II. COLYMBUS LiNN^us. 

 2. Red-necked Grebe. Holboell Grebe. 



Colymbus holbcBllii (Reinh.) Ridgw. 1884. 



This is a very widely distributed species and extends as a strag- 

 gler from Greenland across the continent to the North Pacific. 



This bird arrived in Wales sound, Hudson strait, about 

 June 20th, 1885, and was often seen during the summer. {Paytie.) 

 Common in northern part of James bay. (Spreadborough.) It is 

 a rare migrant in Nova Scotia {Downs); occasionally seen in New 



