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. (Coues.) 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 larvae of 

 small insects. (Richardson.) 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. (Macfarlane.) First seen, July 24th, on north 

 shore of Great Slave lake about W. long. 110°, probably nesting; 

 thence northward to Chnton-Golden lake. Very abundant in 

 migration at Fort Reliance in mid-September. (E. T. Seton.) A 

 small stream of these birds kept passing Medicine Hat, Sask., from 

 April 1 6th 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 loth, 

 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 Augfust; 

 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 i6th, 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.) 



