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province, noting all the migrants, obtaining skins and recording 
the summer birds of that district. In the spring of 1893 he 
accompanied the writer to Vancouver Island, and there also large 
collections were made. In March, 1894, he examined the district 
around Medicine Hat and eastward to Crane Lake in western 
Assiniboia and remained in the field until July. The summer of 
1895 was spent by him on the prairie south of the line of the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, where the summer birds of the prairie 
region were noted and records of their breeding habits made. In 
ali these years Mr. Spreadborough worked under the direction of 
the writer. The summer of 1896 Mr. Spreadborough spent in 
Labrador and the summers of 1897 and 1898 in the Rocky Moun- 
tains between the Crow’s Nest Pass and the Yellow Head Pass 
in Lat. 54°. 
The notices of Greenland birds are derived principally from 
the Arctic Manual, published in London in 1875. In this work all 
records pertaining to Greenland birds were brought up to the 
date of publication. In 1898 Herluf Winge published in Copen- 
hagen a conspectus of the bird fauna of Greenland, and his obser- 
vations have been added to those above mentioned. Many years 
since Mr. Henry Reeks published a catalogue of the birds of 
Newfoundland, and this has been used for that island. Mr. 
Andrew Downs, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is the chief authority 
for that province. Mr. Montague Chamberlain, of St. John, is 
quoted for New Brunswick. For Quebec all available material 
has been employed, besides the works of Mr. C. E. Dionne and 
Mr. Ernest D. Wintle. In addition to the Birds of Ontario, 
mentioned above, local lists, both manuscript and printed, of the 
birds of certain parts of Ontario have been freely used. For the 
province of Manitoba, Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson’s work is 
quoted, supplemented by observations made by the writer and 
by Dr. Coues on the southern boundary of the province. 
From the western part of Manitoba to the Pacific I have 
drawn on my own observations and those of Mr, John Fannin, 
supplemented by a manuscript list of Fraser River birds by Mr. 
Allan Brooks. For Alaska, works by Elliott, Nelson, Turner 
and Murdoch have been avzilable and are frequently cited in the 
following pages. In regard to northern stations, the work of Mr. 
Roderick Macfarlane takes first place, and the value of his collec- 
