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and two were shot at the latter place by myself, one, September 
roth, 1886, and the other one September Ist, 1888, both of which 
are now in my collection of bird’s skins. Mr. C. W. Johnson, of 
Lachine, says he shot fifteen wild pigeons in the woods, four 
miles north of that place on the 9th December, 1888. The speci- 
mens I shot appear to be a female and young male bird. I saw 
a female or immature passenger pigeon in a tree on Mount 
Royal Park, June 4th, 1891. (Wznile.) A summer resident ; 
breeds. (O#. Nat.) A few straggling pairs are still seen in 
southern Ontario where they probably breed, but the large 
annual migrations have entirely ceased. (Mcllwraith.) Breed- 
ing in an aspen grove at North-west Angle, Lake of the Woods, 
Man., 1873. (G. WZ. Dawson.) 
This celebrated pigeon arrives in the Northwest Territories in 
the latter end of May, and departs in October. It annually reaches 
the 62nd parallel in the warmer central districts, but reaches the 
58th parallel on the shores of Hudson Bay in fine summers only. 
(Richardson.) North, on the Mackenzie, at Fort Norman ; not 
common. (Ross.) Probably now extinct in British Columbia. 
(Frannin.) 
Our latest notices of this species are taken from Mr. Seton- 
Thompson’s Birds of Manitoba. \n this work he shows that itstill 
breeds in considerable numbers in northern Manitoba, as late as 
1887, and as far as the writer is aware may do so still. While 
making an exploration in northern Manitoba, in the summer of 
1881, the writer had the good fortune to discover a small breeding 
place of these birds on the 23rd June. It was on the left bank of 
the Waterhen River, a deep stream which connects Lake Mani- 
toba with Lake Winnipegoosis. There were less than a score of 
nests which were variously placed, some of them less than ten 
feet from the ground, and not in large trees. They were such 
flimsy structures that the eggs were clearly seen through the 
interstices from below, and one old bird was shot as she sat. Only 
two eggs were taken. 
In the latter part of August and early in September of the 
same year, on the Swan River, above Livingstone, and also on the 
upper Assiniboine, we saw large flocks and as food was scarce we 
shot large numbers for the pot. The low flats along the river 
were covered with Cornus stolontfera, and on the ripe berries of 
this shrub they were feeding. 
