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ular in winter; a common summer resident in the districts of Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka. Usually nesting along the banks of streams. 

 (/. H. Fleming.) Abundant at Cache lake, Algonquin park, Ont. 

 (Spreadborough.) Common but very erratic around London, Ont. 

 Sometimes seen in winter, and more often in flocks in early spring 

 but the breeders arrive here about May 6th. This is an average 

 date of arrival for 13 years. Seems to hold its own in spite of its 

 frequent fate at the hands of the owners of stolen cherries. (W. E. 

 Saunders.) Common summer resident at Guelph, Ont. Arrives 

 about May 29th, and leaves about Sept. 26th. {A. B. Klugh.) A 

 common and breeding summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. 

 {A. F. Young.) Recorded by Baird from Moose Factory, at the 

 foot of James bay, where it was collected by Drexler on Aug. 26th, 

 i860. Walton Hayden took specimens at the same place in 1881. 

 (E. A. Preble.) 



Not seen at Pembina, but found at various other points along 

 the 49th parallel, and ascertained to be particularly abundant in 

 the Rocky mountains. (Coues.) A common summer resident of 

 woodlands in Manitoba. On July 22nd, 1884, at Portage la Prairie, 

 found a nest of a cedar bird in the woods near the river. It was 

 placed on the branch of a low oak, and was much the same as a 

 specimen taken in the eastern provinces. It contained two fresh 

 eggs, from which I infer that the species is a very late nester here. 

 (E. T. Seton.) Common and breeding at Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) 

 An abundant and regular breeding species in all the wooded dis- 

 tricts of Manitoba and west to Edmonton. Not noted during the 

 winter. (Atkinson.) A few seen in the Maple creek timber in 

 1906. (A. C. Bent.) Three individuals were seen at Indian Head, 

 Sask,, on June 2nd, and later they became common, they breed 

 here; apparently breeding at Old Wives creek in June, 1895; seen 

 in numbers at Waterton lake the same year; quite common along 

 Peace river, lat. 56°, in July, 1903; common from Edmonton to 

 Athabaska pass in June, 1898; observed a number of individuals at 

 Jumping Pound creek, near Calgary, June 27th, 1897; common at 

 Crow Nest pass the same year ; a common breeding species at Banff, 

 Rocky mountains, in June, 1891 ; abundant at Deer Park and Rob- 

 son, on the Columbia, in June, 1890, only commencing to breed on 

 June 2oth; common at Agassiz after May 24th, also at Spence 

 Bridge; one pair seen at Kamloops, June iSth, 1889; seen in flocks 



