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Up a dead bird by the roadside near Lansdowne about the end of 

 April, 1898. {Rev. C. J. Young.) Common migrant at Toronto, 

 Ont. A common summer resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka 

 districts. (/. H. Fleming.) Abundant everywhere in Algonquin 

 park, Ont. in the summer of 1900; common at Missinabi, Ont., 

 the first week in June, 1904. {Spreadhorough.) A passing migrant 

 at Guelph, Ont. {A. B. Khigh.) The song of this species was heard 

 at Bull Head point, Lake Winnipeg, on the morning of June i6th. 

 The birds were rather common at Norway House, and were seen or 

 heard daily between there and Oxford House, They were common 

 at Oxford House and a specimen was taken at that point; while 

 descending the streams between Oxford House and York Factory 

 we found them abundant ; every wooded islet in the lakes seemed to 

 be the home of a pair, and wherever we camped we heard their 

 songs, which began soon after midnight; a nest found in a bush 

 overhanging Jack river, between Knee and Swampy lakes, July 6th, 

 contained eggs on the point of hatching. At York Factory, where 

 we took tw^o specimens, the species was apparently less abundant, 

 and beyond that point we did not meet with it. Baird recorded a 

 specimen collected at Moose Factory in July, i860, by Drexler. 

 (E. A. Preble.) Abundant and breeding in wooded districts 

 of Manitoba generally and noted in 1906, as far west as 

 Battleford, Alta. (Atkinson.) After giving a number of references 

 legarding the occurrence of this bird in Manitoba, Mr. E. T. Seton 

 says he is disposed to question them all. Yet he speaks of 

 its occurrence at Carberry, Manitoba, and apparently breeding; 

 while not giving an opinion I may say that both this form and the 

 gray-cheeked thrush were taken in the spring of 1892 at Indian Head, 

 Sask., first seen on May i6th, 1894, at Medicine Hat, Sask. ; the 

 next day they were abundant and in a day or two there were only 

 a few stragglers left, a few remained to breed as they were seen 

 later; a few were observed at Old Wives creek, Sask., in the latter 

 part of May, 1895; abundant from the mouth of Lesser Slave river 

 to Peace River Landing, June ,1903; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., 

 May 8th, 1897; afterwards it became common and nests and eggs 

 were taken; common from Edmonton to the Athabaska pass, in 

 June, 1898; common in the foothills south of Calgary to Crow Nest 

 ■pass; this was a common summer resident at Banff, P..ocky moun- 

 tains, in 189 1 ; a few seen at Deer Park, Columbia river, and breeding 

 in numbers at Robson late in June, 1890; first seen at Elko, B.C., 

 May i4tli, 1904; common by the 21st. (Spreadhorough.) 



