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associates. It retires to the marshy and eastern wooded districts 

 to breed, extending its range to the shores of the Arctic 

 Sea. {Richardson.) Throughout Alaska this species appears 

 to be very rare. Two specimens were taken in the vicinity of St. 

 Michael during my residence there, and three were secured on 

 the upper Yukon. All these were young males. It is much 

 more common on the upper Yukon in spring and summer than 

 along the shores of Behring Sea, where it can only be counted 

 a very rare straggler. {Nelson.) A single specimen of this bird 

 was brought to me by a native who said he had just killed it at 

 Egg Island, a few miles from the village of St. Michael. {Turner.) 

 East of and including the Coast Range ; I have taken it on the 

 summit. {Fannin.) Common spring and autumn migrant at 

 Chilliwack, B.C. {Brooks.) This species arrives before the first of 

 April at Indian Head, Assa., but in what numbers it is hard to 

 determine as the form that remains to breed may be praticola or 

 arenicola or even hoyti. The specimen in our collection was shot 

 on April I2th, 1892, and on the same day I took a specimen of 

 arenicola ; on April 19th 1890, another specimen was taken at 

 Revelstoke, B.C., where they appeared to be common ; in April, 

 1891, specimens were taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains. No 

 specimens that proved to be this form were taken in the autumn; 

 four specimens taken at Huntingdon on the boundary between 

 Washington and British Columbia, in September, 1901, proved to 

 be this form. It is more than probable that Dr. Dwight is correct 

 when he says that this may breed on the mountains north of the 

 United States boundary. {Spreadborough.) A careful reading of 

 Mr. Thompson-Seton's article on the horned lark in his " Birds of 

 Manitoba" shows that the winter bird seen in flocks is undoubt- 

 edly this form. It is very probable that praticola is a later arrival. 

 Nash says " that at Portage la Prairie praticola is a spring and fall 

 visitant ; stays nearly all winter ; disappears and reappears at 

 intervals ; arrives about March 20th, reappears in August, and 

 departs in October." Now to me this is exactly what a bird breed- 

 ing on the "barren grounds" would do, so I conclude that this 

 form is the one mentioned by Nash and included in praticola hy 

 Thompson-Seton. Two darker coloured specimens taken at 

 Indian Head, Assa., in September,i89i,and named ^ojc^?' by Bishop 

 are placed here. This is very likely the form that Dr. R. Bell 

 found breeding at York Factory and Fort Churchill on Hudson 

 Bay. {Macoun.) On May 29th, 1893, at Rush Lake, Assiniboia, 

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