CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 4I5 



Quebec, May 30th, 1885. (/. M. Macoun.) Taken at Beauport, 

 a rare permanent resident in Quebec. {Dionne.) A rare winter 

 resident at Montreal; occasionally visits the city river ice-dump. 

 (Wintle.) Rare visitant to the north of Ottawa; occasionally seen 

 near the city. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) A common bird on 

 the Magdalen islands, breeding in the rocks and occasionally in the 

 larger spruce trees. Rare in the cultivated parts of Ontario. I 

 have seen a pair flying at a great height near Combermere, Renfrew 

 CO., in the month of January. (Rev. C. J. Young.) At one time 

 abundant along the north shore of Lake Ontario, but they disap- 

 peared at a very early date; a common resident in Parry Sound 

 district; rarer in Muskoka. (/. H. Fleming.) I met with one or 

 more of these birds daily during a three week's trip to Whitney, 

 near Algonquin park, Ont., in the fall of 1898. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 

 It is probable that none of these now occur in southwestern Ontario 

 except as stragglers. {W. E. Saunders.) From Missinabi, Ont., to 

 Cape Henrietta Maria, James bay, in 1904. (Spreadborough.) 

 We saw several between Robinson portage and Pine lake, Keewatin, 

 June 28th, and while descending Hill river, July 8th, noticed a pair 

 flying about the face of a high clay bank. Except for one specimen 

 seen at Fort Churchill, July 30th, we did not again note the species. 

 (Preble.) 



Rare at Aweme, Man., only observed late in autumn or in the 

 winter. (Criddle.) An irregular late fall visitor to the Manitoba 

 lakes. A few noted about Portage la Prairie in early winter. (At- 

 kinson.) Occasionally observed on the International Boundary, 

 lat. 49°, but no specimens were taken. (Coues.) A tolerably com- 

 mon winter visitant ; probably nesting in the northern lands. (E. T. 

 Seton.) The call of this species was heard and we were told by 

 Mr. McLean that a species of raven was not uncommon at the Grand 

 rapids of the Saskatchewan. (Nutting.) A permanent resident on 

 the Saskatchewan, but very scarce, and only seen in winter in the 

 great woods or about them. (Coubeaux.) Rare at Aweme, Man., 

 only observed late in autumn or in the winter. (Cridd'e.) An 

 irregular late fall visitor to the Manitoba lakes. A few noted about 

 Portage la Prairie in early winter. (Atkinson.) Very abundant 

 between Athabaska Landing and Lesser Slave river; an occasional 

 specimen was seen on the Clearwater river, and they were not 

 rare on Methye Portage; common between Methye lake and 



