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flock was seen at Crane Lake, Assa.; abundant as a migrant at 

 Edmonton, Alta., from April 28th to May 5th, 1897. {Spread- 

 borough.) In the year 1827 it appeared on the plains of the Sas- 

 katchewan at Carlton House about the middle of May and 

 remained for about ten days. They came to Cumberland House 

 about the same time and remained in the furrows of a newly 

 ploughed field. In the preceding year they were seen, though in 

 smaller flocks, at Fort Franklin, Lat. 6$}4°, in the beginning of 

 May ; the crops of those killed were filled with the seeds of 

 Arctostaphylos alpina. (Richardson^ North to Fort Simpson on 

 the Mackenzie River. {Ross^ Numerous every spring and fall 

 in company with the horned lark at Prince Albert, Sask. {Cou- 

 beaux.) Altogether about eighty nests of this species were col- 

 lected in the " barren grounds " and on the shores of Franklin 

 Bay. {Macfarlane.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have a dozen nests with sets of eggs that 

 were collected at Herschell Island by Mr. Stringer and Mr. 

 Young. The nests are made of dried grass, well lined with 

 feathers and are always built on the ground, in the shelter of a tuft 

 of grass or sod, and contain five or six eggs each. The eggs are 

 laid in the middle of June and the female is a close sitter, most of 

 the nests being found by flushing the bird off the nest. {W.Raine.) 



museum specimens. 



Twenty-one ; two taken at Ottawa by F. A. Saunders; one at 

 Toronto by Mr. S. Herring; one purchased with the Holman col- 

 lection in 1885; one taken at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait, 

 by Mr. W. A. Paine ; thirteen taken at Indian Head, Assa., part 

 (chiefly young) in September, 1891 and the others in April, 1892, 

 two at Edmonton, Alta., in May, 1897, all by Mr. W. Spread- 

 borough. 



Four sets of eggs ranging from 2-5 eggs each ; one of five taken 

 at Repulse Bay, Hudson Bay, in 1896 by Capt. A. Murray ; three 

 at Nachvack by R. Guy in 1897. 



536a. Alaskan Longspur. 



Calcarius lapponicus alascensis Ridgw. 1898. 

 The whole of Alaska, including Prybilof and Aleutian islands, 

 Unalaska and the Shumagins, east to Fort Simpson. {Ridgway.) 

 Throughout the province; nowhere common. Burrard Inlet, Vic- 



