CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 475 



with water and the birds deserted it. (1^7. H. Moore.) Restigouche 

 valley, N.B. ; always near settlements. (Briitain & Cox.) Com- 

 mon at Gaspe, Que., but nowhere else on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 (Brewster.) Taken at Beauport; a summer resident in eastern 

 Quebec. (Dionne.) An abundant summer resident at Montreal; 

 breeds in Mount Royal park; nests found containing fresh eggs 

 from July 22nd to August 8th; observed at Montreal from April 

 yth to November i8th; have been seen as late as December nth, 

 1890. {Wintle.) 



Abundant summer resident at Ottawa, Ont. It occasionally 

 winters here in large flocks as it did in 1888-9. {Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) A very common summer resident in Ontario. I have 

 seen flocks of this bird in January at Calabogie lake, Renfrew county, 

 and occasionally at Lansdowne on the St. Lawrence. It is a very 

 late breeder, seldom nesting until the middle of June; I have seen 

 fresh eggs in August. {Rev. C. J. Young.) Resident at Toronto, 

 Ont.; abundant in summer and sometimes in winter. An abun- 

 dant summer resident in both the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. 

 (/. H. Fleming.) Common around the buildings at Cache lake, 

 Algonquin park, Ont., June, 1900. {Spreadborough.) Common 

 everywhere, and is to be found every winter in varying numbers 

 in the cedar swamps about London, Ont. ; a common summer 

 resident. In the spring, erratic flocks are seen now here now there ; 

 but they begin to seek their summer quarters, to sing and to be 

 regularly observed about April 28th, on an average of fourteen 

 years. {W. E. Saunders.) A common resident; most abundant 

 in summer around Guelph, Ont. {A. B. Klugh.) An abundant 

 summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont.; breeds, {A. F. Young.) 



This familiar bird was noted only at Pembina on the borders of 

 Manitoba. {Coues.) A common summer resident in Manitoba. 

 I have not noted this bird in Manitoba before the end of May. In 

 this country it finds neither thistles nor orchards, so it feeds largely 

 on the seed of Rudbeckia hirta and Gaillardia aristata, and nests 

 in the low poplars and oaks on the edges of the heavier timber. 

 {E. T. Seton.) Common at Aweme, Man., nesting late in July. 

 (Criddle.) An abundant summer resident in Manitoba and noted 

 breeding at almost every point along the G. T. P. railway west 

 to Edmonton in 1906. {Atkinson.) Quite common in the 



