4S6 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



on the mossy hillocks. {Prebles.) Observed only on one occasion 

 near the Souris River, when it was in company with chestnut- 

 collared and Lapland longspur, having like the last species just 

 arrived from the north. {Coues.) An abundant spring but rare 

 fall migrant in Manitoba ; on May 17th, 1884, they were at Car- 

 berry, Man., in enormous numbers, and I had no difficulty in 

 getting all the specimens I desired. {Thompson-Seton) A large 

 flock was seen at Indian Head, Assa., on May 12th, 1892, common 

 by the 15th but gone in a few days ; a few were seen at Egg 

 Lake, Peace River, Lat. 56° on August .30th, and others at Lesser 

 Slave Lake, September 5th, 1903. {Spreadborough.) This species 

 was observed associating with Lapland buntings on the banks of 

 the Saskatchewan, but no information regarding its breeding 

 habits was received. Only one specimen was obtained. {Richard- 

 son.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River ; rather 

 rare. {Ross.) Very abundant in the country to the eastward of 

 Fort Anderson in the " barren grounds," and on the lower Ander- 

 son River. {Macfarlane.) This species has been taken at Fort 

 Yukon by Strachan Jones but there is no other record of its hav- 

 ing been taken in Alaska. {Neison.) One male secured at Point 

 Barrow, Alaska, June nth, 1898. {Witmer Stone.) 



Breeding Notes. — This bird breeds abundantly on the slopes 

 of the Caribou Hills, 80 miles south of the Arctic Coast west of 

 . the Mackenzie River delta. Here Mr. Stringer found several 

 nests in June, 1897. They were built on the the ground in grassy 

 hummocks and contained from 4 to 6 eggs in each, which some- 

 what resemble eggs of the Lapland longspur, except that they 

 have a paler ground-colour. Ten nests before me are all made of 

 dry grass and well lined with feathers. {W. Raine.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three taken at Indian Head, Assa., one in September, 1891, and 

 two in May, 1892, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



538 Chestnut -collared Longspur. 



Calcarius ornatus (Towns.) Stejn. 1882. 



These birds were not noticed in the immediate vicinity of Red 

 River, but I had no sooner passed the Pembina Mountains than I 

 found them in profusion; from thence they extend in more or 

 less abundance to the Rocky Mountains. {Coues.) A common 



