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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Common summer resident of half-wooded districts in Manitoba. 

 Breeding freely at Carberry, Shell river and Qu'Appelle. {E. T. 

 Seton.) A regular and common breeding species in Manitoba 

 generally and noted along the G.T.P. Ry. in 1906, west to Edmonton, 

 Alta. {Atkinson.) Formerly common but now rather rare at 

 Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) First seen at Indian Head, Sask., on 

 May 1 6th, 1892, they were never common; a few breed there, as 

 they were seen up to the end of June; first seen at Medicine Hat, 

 Sask., on May 14th, 1894, later they became common and doubtless 

 bred in the river valley; apparently breeding near Pend d'Oreille, 

 on the Milk river, Alta., July loth, 1895; observed a pair on May 

 18th, 1897, at Edmonton, Alta., building a nest in a clump of wil- 

 lows; I unfortunately shot the female; nest nearly finished, com- 

 posed of weeds; observed one at Midway, B.C., April 6th, 1905. 

 (Spreadborough.) This is a more southern bird than Lanius horealis 

 and does not seem to advance further north than lat. 54°. Its habits 

 are precisely similar to the other, and its food, which was grasshop- 

 pers, the same. They are numerous on the plains. Mr. Drummond 

 found a nest in a willow bush, in the beginning of June, which was 

 built of twigs of Artemisia and dried grass and lined with feathers. 

 (Richardson.) 



622b. California Shrike. 



Lanius ludovicianus gambeli Ridgw. 1887. 



One taken in April, 1888, at Chilliwack, Fraser river valley, B.C., 

 1888. (Brooks.) This specimen is referred here on the authority of 

 Mr. W. Brewster. 



Family XLVIII. VIREONID^. Vireos. 



CCXLVI. VIREOSYLVA. Bonaparte. 1838. 



624 Red-Eyed Vireo. 



Vireosylva olivacea (Linn.) Bonap. 1850. 



One specimen received in Copenhagen from Greenland in 1844. 

 (Arct. Man.) Very abundant all down the Moose river; not ob- 

 served further north than Moose Factory. (Spreadborough.) Com- 

 mon in Nova Scotia in summer. (H. F. Tufts.) A common summer 



