CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 365 



men summer resident in the Montreal district. They have beeq 

 found breeding here before the winter's snow has melted off 

 the ground ; they arrive in February and leave in November. 

 {Wintle.) Occasional at Quebec. (Dionne) A common summer 

 resident in the Ottawa district ; it arrives before the end of Feb- 

 ruary and remains all summer to breed, and leaves about the 

 beginning of November. {OUawa Naturalist^ Vo\.W.) An abun- 

 dant, breeding, summer resident in the Muskoka and Parry Sound 

 districts. The date of its first appearance at Port Sydney, as 

 given by Mr. Kay, was 1887. (/. H. Fleming.) Summer resident 

 at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore.) Reaching us 

 during the early days of February these birds soon become very 

 abundant. On 20th February, 1900, they were especially so along 

 the lake shore, and wherever a patch of weeds was in evidence 

 above the snow dozens of the birds were hurrying to and fro 

 clearing up all the seeds and enlivening the scene with merry 

 little snatches of song. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 



This is a common summer resident in Manitoba, breeding 

 freely on the open prairie. {Thompson-Seton.) This form becomes 

 very abundant early in May at Indian Head, Assa. On the 9th 

 of that month took a nest with three eggs ; by June 2nd, young 

 were able to fly. I believe they breed several times in a season. 

 ( Spreadborough. ) 



Breeding Notes. — This sub-species arrives in February and 

 March, and continues all the summer. Early in February this 

 year (1901) I saw a number of horned larks on the ice between 

 Kingston and Wolfe Island; they are often in company with snow 

 buntings; the first prairie horned larks I saw on Feb. 17th, (3), 

 and one on Feb. 28th near the head of Wolfe Island. They are 

 tamer and more familiar birds than the northern variety, and are 

 now breeding commonly in Ontario. In the townships of Lans- 

 downe and Escott, and around Kingston, they nest every year. 

 I have found the nest with eggs, in which incubation has begun, 

 as early as March 29th, and just hatching on April 23rd, 1895. 

 The usual time for laying is the first week in April, before the 

 snow has all melted in the spring. I have a record of a nest on 

 Wolfe Island with four eggs, on March 8th, clipped from a news- 

 paper, and frequently the young birds are hatched by the middle 

 of April. Three eggs is the commonest number, but I have 

 found four three times, and five once, April 13th, 1899. A com- 

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