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Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake, on April 1850.« B. E. Ross 

 recorded the bird as abundant in the Mackenzie Biver region, and 

 as having been collected at Fort Simpson.^ MacFarlane took a nest 

 containing 5 eggs on the shores of Franklin Bay, July 8, 1864; ^ in 

 notes sent to Professor Baird he states that for a period in the spring 

 and autumn of each season the species was very numerous along the 

 Anderson, and that it was first seen at Fort Anderson on April 22, 

 1865. and at Fort Good Hope on April 14 of the previous year. Rus- 

 sell took specimens at Fort Rae, October 5 to 13, 1893, and at Her- 

 schel Island, July 16 to 18, 1894, reporting it common at the latter 

 station throughout the summer.'^ Specimens from Fort Resolution, 

 Big Island, Fort Simpson, and Franklin Bay are in the National 

 Museum, and the bird catalogue shows that skins were received also 

 from Fort Rae. Fort Liard, and Fort Halkett. Macoun reports that 

 three were seen on McLeod River, west of Edmonton, October 2, and 

 hundreds on the shores of Lake Ste. Anne, October 12, 1898, on the 

 authority of Spreadborough. On the authority of Raine he records a 

 nest built in a hole under the eaves of a house at Herschel Island, 

 June 25, 1901 ; another nest built on the ground at the side of a hum- 

 mock, and containing eggs, was found at the same place June 18.^ 

 Hanbury, during his trip through the Barren Grounds in the spring 

 of 1902, noted the first snow -bunting on Mslj 5, a short distance 

 south of Ogden Bay.'^ Seton records old birds with young of the 

 year on Clinton-Colden Lake August 11, 1907.^ 



The spring and fall dates of arrival of this bird at Fort Chipewyan, 

 during a series of years, appear in a table on page 23. 



Calcarius lapponicus (Linn.). Lapland Longspur. 



This wide-ranging species occurs at some season throughout the 

 region now under review, and breeds on the Barren Grounds. The 

 Mackenzie seems to be near the line dividing the typical form and 

 its western subspecies, C. I. alascensis. In a region like this, from 

 which only a few scattered records and specimens are at hand, it is 

 of course impossible to assign all records with certainty. As nearly 

 as can be decided from present information, however, the line divid- 

 ing the two forms in migration passes northward west of Athabaska 

 Lake through the western part of Great Slave Lake, and thence 

 northward between the Mackenzie and Great Bear Lake to the coast. 



« Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski, p. 325, 1853. 

 ^Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 281, 1892. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI Y, p. 441, 1891. 

 ^ Expl. in Far North, p. 266, 1898. 

 ^ Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, pp. 449, 450, 1904. 

 ^ Sport and Travel in Northland of Canada, p. 135, 1904. 

 f Xnk, XXV, p. 72, 1908. 



