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was discovered in a small hole in a sand bank at least two feet 

 from the entrance along the shores of Franklin Bay. The parent 

 was snared on the nest. (Macjarlane.) The snowflake is 

 very abundant every winter, near Prince Albert, Sask. It 

 arrives as soon as the cold and the snow appear, usually 

 about the middle of October, and remains as long as the weather 

 is cold and bad. {Coubeaux.) Observed at Sumas, British Colum- 

 bia. {Lord.) Abundant resident ; rhore common east of Coast 

 Range. .{Fannin.) Rare migrant at Chilliwack ; common in the 

 winter at Okanagan Lake and in the Cariboo District, B.C. {Brooks.) 



This species is a summer resident in all northern Alaska and 

 extends its summer wanderings to the northern islands off the 

 coast of the Arctic Sea. {Nelson.) This bird may be seen at St. 

 Michael, or its vicinity, at any season of the year, except the 

 coldest weather in midwinter. {Turner) This species and the 

 Lapland longspur are the commonest passerine birds, and in fact 

 the only ones which could be said to be common at Point 

 Barrow. {Murdoch.) Choris Peninsula and Cape Lowenstern, 

 Alaska. A rather rare species around Kotzebue Sound, but 

 two pairs were seen that had young. {Grinnell.) A series of 43 

 specimens, all from Point Barrow, Alaska, corresponds excellently 

 with a series of Greenland birds obtained by the Peary expedi- 

 tion. {Witmer Stone.) One specimen was shot at White Pass 

 summit on June 12th. At St. Michael I saw two in September, 

 and numbers on St. George Island, Behring Sea. {Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have a set of four eggs that were taken 

 by F. F. Payne at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait, June 20th, 

 1886. On June 25th, 19OI, a snow bunting built its nest in a hole 

 under the eave of Mr. Stringer's house on Herschell Island in the 

 Arctic Ocean, west of the mouth of Mackenzie Bay ; on June 

 i8th he found another nest and eggs on the ground in a hollow 

 at the side of a hummock. {W. Raine.) 



MUSEtTM SPECIMENS. 



Sixteen ; seven taken at Ottawa, Ont., by Mr. S. Herring; four 

 others taken at Ottawa by Mr. F. A. Saunders; one at Hamilton, 

 Ont., by Mr. T. Mcllwraith ; five at Indian Head, Assa., in April, 

 1892, by Mr. Spreadborough; one in May, 1884, in the Fraserval- 

 ley, B.C., by Mr. J. Fannin. 



