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At one time breeding in Nova Scotia, but now scarcely if ever 

 seen. {Downs.) Very seldom seen in New Brunswick now, but 

 formerly abundant. {Chamberlain.) Specimens obtained at Moose 

 Factory, Hudson Bay, by Drexler, August, i860. Verrill saw a 

 single individual at Heath point, Anticosti, in i860. {Packard.) 

 Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. {Clarke.) Charlesbourg, possibly 

 breeds in Quebec. {Dionne.) Common migrant in the district of 

 Montreal, in 1862. {Dr. Hall.) Transient visitor; scarce. Two 

 were shot the latter end of August, 1883, at Chambly, and one 

 was shot September 15th, 1885, on the spur of Mount Royal; and 

 two were shot at the latter place by myself, one, September loth, 

 1886, and the other one September ist, 1888, both of which are 

 now in my collection of bird skins. Mr. C. W. Johnson, of Lachine, 

 says he shot fifteen wild pigeons in the woods, four miles north of 

 that place on the 9th December, 1888. The specimens I shot 

 appear to be a female and young male bird. I saw a female or 

 immature passenger pigeon in a tree in Mount Royal Park, June 

 4th, 1 89 1. {Wintle.) A summer resident; breeds. {Ottawa Nat- 

 uralist, Vol. V.) I shot a bird of this species about three miles 

 west of Renfrew, Ont., in September, 1888. {Rev. C. J. Young.) 

 A few straggling pairs are still seen in southern Ontario where 

 they probably breed, but the large annual migrations have entirely 

 ceased. {Mcllwraith.) Breeding in an aspen grove at Northwest 

 Angle, Lake of the Woods, Man., 1873. (^- -^^- Dawson.) Has 

 been very rare for a number of years at Aweme, Man, The last 

 individual seen was a male bird on Sept. 21st, 1902. The first 

 arrival in 1899 was April 8th. {Criddle.) 



This celebrated pigeon arrives in the Northwest Territories in 

 the latter end of May, and departs in October. It annually reaches 

 the 62nd parallel in the warmer central districts, but reaches the 

 58th parallel on the shores of Hudson bay in fine summers only. 

 {Richardson.) North, on the Mackenzie, to Fort Norman; not 

 common. {Ross.) Probably now extinct in British Columbia. 

 {Fannin.) 



In Birds of Manitoba Mr. Seton shows that it still bred in con- 

 siderable numbers in northern Manitoba, as late as 1887. While 

 making an exploration in northern Manitoba, in the summer of 

 1 88 1, the writer had the good fortune to discover a small breeding 



