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lower Hayes River as we were ascending it, August 29th. 

 iE.A. Prebles) 



Along the 49th parallel this species is a bird of passage, but the 

 second season they were found in August about Chief Mountain 

 Lake, and no doubt those then observed were bred in immediate 

 vicinity as at that time the fall migration had not commenced. 

 (^Coues!) An abundant spring and fall migrant in Manitoba. 

 (Thompson-Seton^ A comnion spring and fall migrant at Avenue, 

 Manitoba. (Norman Criddle.) A small stream of these birds kept 

 passing Medicine Hat, Assa., from April i6th to May 3rd, 1894, 

 when the last ones disappeared ; found with their young more than 

 half grown on Sheep Mountain, close to Chief Mountain, on 

 the 49th parallel, at an altitude of 7,500 feet, July 30th, 1895; ^^^^ 

 saw a flock of about twenty at Edmonton, Alta., April 27th, 1897, 

 they continued to be common to May loth, when all disappeared; 

 only one observed in the AthabascaPass on September 29th, 1898; 

 common on the mountains above timber line south of Calgary 

 in July and in the Crow's Nest Pass in August; frequent in spring 

 at Banff, Rocky Mountains, found on the mountains around 

 Devil's Lake, in August, 1891; common after April 19th, 189a, on 

 the flats by the Columbia River; later in the same year they were 

 found on the mountains near. the head of Bow River; they evi- 

 dently breed on all the mountains above timber line; seen in 

 large flocks at Trail near the 49th parallel May 8th, 1902; seen in 

 flocks at Penticton, B.C., Aprili 1903! found breeding on nearly 

 all the mountains of the Coast and Gold ranges, B.C., near the 

 49th parallel, where there was grass, at an altitude of about 

 5i000 feet; very abundant on the shore of Sumas Lake in the fall 

 of 1901; first seen on Vancouver Island on April i6th, 1893, they 

 were common on ploughed fields by the 24th, last seen going 

 north May 7th. (Spreadborough.) Found on the summit of Mount 

 Finlayson near Victoria on May 17th, 1887, where they doubtless 

 breed. {Macoun.) 



This bird was observed in small flocks on the plains of the 

 Saskatchewan in the spring of 1827, feeding on the larvae of small 

 insects. {Richardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie 

 River; not common. {Ross.) I have reason to believe that this 

 bird is among those that resort to the Anderson to breed, but no 

 nests were found. (Macjarlane.) Shot east of Coast Range. {Lord.) 

 Large flocks were found about the meadows of the coast district 



