CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 655 



during the fall migration. {Streator.) East and west of Coast Range, 

 abundant; found throughout some winters on Vancouver Island. 

 {Fannin.) Common migrant through the Fraser valley at Chilli- 

 wack; breeds abov&the timber line on the Coast Range. {Brooks.) 

 Province r)f British Columbia at large; breeding sparsely on the 

 plateaus and mesas pi the interior up to 4000 feet. {Rhoads.) 

 Very common at Sumas Lake, Lulu Island and Matasqui Prairie 

 B.C., in September, 1894. {E.F. G. White) This species arrives 

 at Unalaska eirly in May and by the 19th had eggs on the hillsides. 

 They seem to breed along the whole coast of northern Alaska and 

 on many of the islands in Behring Sea. {Nelson) This species occurs 

 throughout the territory of Alaska, including the Aleutian Islands. 

 It is found in the greatest abundance in the interior of the main- 

 land, especially at Fort Yukon; it rarely visits St. Michael except 

 in the fall. {Turner.) A pair seen on a grassy tide-flat beyond 

 Indian River at Sitka, Alaska, on June loth and the female 

 secured; from the condition of the ovaries, I judged that it would 

 have laid eggs within a week. {Grinnell.) A bird thought to be 

 this species was seen on a snow field in themountainS'of Moresby 

 Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., on June 23rd, 1900 ; com- 

 paratively few pipits were seen around Cook's Inlet, Alaska; one 

 specimen was taken at Tyonek, September i8th. {Osgood.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have sets taken by F. F. Payne at Cape 

 Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait, in June, 1886; also sets taken at 

 Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, June 30th, 1895, by Lambert Dicks, as 

 well as sets taken at Nachvak, Labrador, June 15th, 1897; the 

 Rev. I. O. Stringer found a nest and five eggs at Peel River, near 

 the mouth of the Mackenzie River, June 25th, 1900, this was built 

 of dried grass on the ground. {W. Raine.) 



A male taken at Skagway, June 3rd, was probably a belated 

 migrant; on the heights above Glacier, Osgood saw several, June 

 5th, and we found them common at Summit, June it-13; a female 

 taken, June 13th was laying, and a fresh but empty nest I found 

 the same day I attributed to this species,- no other being near ; 

 this nest was loosely formed of fine dry grass in a hollow in the 

 deep moss which covered the almost perpendicular side of a 

 boulder lying on a hill high above Summit, only a small hole for 

 entrance showing in the moss. We often saw the song-flight at 

 Summit ; launching himself with a sharp preliminary " chip " 

 from one of the granite boulders that abound there, the male 

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