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this account we conclude that it breeds in its range from New- 
foundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, 
Quebec and Ontario. We have records of its occurrence in all 
these provinces but not as being anywhere common. 
After long watching I at last found a small colony of these 
birds (seven in number) in a cedar swamp some miles from the 
city of Ottawa, Ont., and secured a fine pair on the Ist November, 
1901. (G. Rk. White.) 
This is a tolerably common summer resident in Manitoba, and 
evidently breeds throughout the province. (Zhompson-Seton.) 
One seen at Indian Head, Assa.,on April 13th, 1892, and not seen 
again until June. The one killed had a white-footed mouse and 
some large beetles in its stomach. On May 8th, 1894, a pair was 
seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., and others were seen on Old Wives’ 
Creek, Assa., May, 1895; it was not observed anywhere in the 
Rocky Mountains but was not uncommon in the woods at Edmon- 
ton, Alta.,in May, 1897; later, I found a nest, with six eggs, in a 
spruce tree about ten feet from the ground, composed of sticks and 
lined with dried grass and leaves; a pair seen at Sicamous, B.C., in 
July, 1889. (Spreadborough.) This bird has been found as far 
north as Lat. 60°, and probably exists as far north as the forest 
extends. It is plentiful in the woods skirting the Saskatchewan 
plains, and frequents the shores of Hudson Bay only in summer. 
(Richardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie; rare. 
(Ross.) Common throughout British Columbia. (ZLord.) Rare ; 
I have taken it on Vancouver Island only. (/annin.) Not com- 
mon in the Lower Fraser valley; resident; not uncommon on 
Lake Okanagan in the winter of 1897-98 ; resides in the Cariboo 
district of British Columbia throughout the winter. (vooks.) 
Rare everywhere but likely to turn up anywhere in British Col- 
umbia. (Rhoads.) 
BREEDING NoTes.—Rarely observed in eastern Ontario. One 
specimen shot near Lynn, Leeds Co. in the fall of 1893. (Rev. C. 
J. Young.) Not common, breeds in old crows’ nests. Eggs five or 
six. (W. E. Saunders.) May 2oth, 1881, found a nest in a clump 
of willows about 20 miles west of Winnipeg, Manitoba; nest, a 
small bundle of sticks lined with the inner bark of the willow, 
about eight feet from the ground; eggs, three. Also found a 
nest not quite finished at Medicine Hat in the spring of 1894 in 
a Manitoba maple; nest about the same height from the ground 
