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BIRDS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 387
all the specimens are exceedingly minute and are also few
in number, well rounded in outline, and mostly distributed-about
the larger end of the egg; they are of a liver brown
colour. The lighter lavender- coloured markings originally
on Mr. Gale's eggs are barely visible now, having faded out."
There are seven skins and but one set of eggs, taken at
Trail, B. C., June 14th, 1902, by Mr. Spreadborough, in the
Ottawa Museum!
It may be here remarked that one of the referred- to nests
was found by Mr. Charles Ogden at Fort George, Fraser
River, on 5th June, 1889. It contained four eggs, two of
which he was considerate enough to leave therein for incubation
by the parent birds.
474. PALLID HORNED LARK— Otocoris alpesiris arcticola
( Coues).
Under 0. alpesiris leucolcema ( Coues) Major Bendire
expresses himself as follows: " In his ' Notes on and List
of Birds and Eggs Collected in Arctic America, 1861- 1866,'
Mr. R. MacFarlane say's, in speaking of this species: ' Nine
nests of this lark were received at Fort Anderson ( established
on Anderson River in 1861, and abandoned in 1866, approximate
latitude 68° 30' north), a few of them from the Eskimos,
and the others were collected by us in the " Barrens,"
and on the coast of Franklin Bay. The nests are usually
composed of fine hay, neatly disposed, and lined with deer
hair. Several of the parent birds were secured by snares
placed thereon.' . . . The earliest breeding record I have,
one from the lower Anderson River, in Arctic North America,
is June 14th; the latest, from the same locality, is July
9th, 1864, and the breeding season appears to be at its height
there during the first week in July, as all the nests taken
by Mr. MacFarlane, excepting the single one just mentioned,
were taken in this month. The nest belonging to the earliest
set of eggs is now before me. It measures five inches in
outer diameter by two and one- half inches in height. The
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| OCR | BIRDS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 387 all the specimens are exceedingly minute and are also few in number, well rounded in outline, and mostly distributed-about the larger end of the egg; they are of a liver brown colour. The lighter lavender- coloured markings originally on Mr. Gale's eggs are barely visible now, having faded out." There are seven skins and but one set of eggs, taken at Trail, B. C., June 14th, 1902, by Mr. Spreadborough, in the Ottawa Museum! It may be here remarked that one of the referred- to nests was found by Mr. Charles Ogden at Fort George, Fraser River, on 5th June, 1889. It contained four eggs, two of which he was considerate enough to leave therein for incubation by the parent birds. 474. PALLID HORNED LARK— Otocoris alpesiris arcticola ( Coues). Under 0. alpesiris leucolcema ( Coues) Major Bendire expresses himself as follows: " In his ' Notes on and List of Birds and Eggs Collected in Arctic America, 1861- 1866,' Mr. R. MacFarlane say's, in speaking of this species: ' Nine nests of this lark were received at Fort Anderson ( established on Anderson River in 1861, and abandoned in 1866, approximate latitude 68° 30' north), a few of them from the Eskimos, and the others were collected by us in the " Barrens," and on the coast of Franklin Bay. The nests are usually composed of fine hay, neatly disposed, and lined with deer hair. Several of the parent birds were secured by snares placed thereon.' . . . The earliest breeding record I have, one from the lower Anderson River, in Arctic North America, is June 14th; the latest, from the same locality, is July 9th, 1864, and the breeding season appears to be at its height there during the first week in July, as all the nests taken by Mr. MacFarlane, excepting the single one just mentioned, were taken in this month. The nest belonging to the earliest set of eggs is now before me. It measures five inches in outer diameter by two and one- half inches in height. The |
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