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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 285 
20th. (Packard.) The commonest owl in Newfoundland or the 
one most frequently seen. (Keeks.) Now becoming very rare in 
Nova Scotia. (Dowus.) A rare bird in New Brunswick, but occa- 
sionally taken. (Chamberlain.) Winter visitor; rare at Scotch 
Dake; York’ Co.; N.B) (W.A. Moore) © Fort Churchill, Hudson 
Bay. (Clarke.) Fort Churchill and York Factory, Hudson Bay. 
(Dr. R. Bell.) Rare at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec ; seen only 
in winter. (J. M7. Macoun.) Taken at Beauport ; not common in 
Quebec. (Dionne.) Transient visitor at Montreal. Some years 
this owl is common in the woods around Montreal and frequently 
shot in autumn or early winter. (W2nd/e.) A winter visitant at Otta- 
wa, Ont., but rare. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol.V.) In southern Ontario 
this species can only be regarded as arare winter visitor; it seems 
to be more frequent in Muskoka and further north. ((/c//wraith.) 
A few were taken, some years ago, about Toronto, but it seldom 
comes here now ; I have had specimens from both Parry Sound 
and Muskoka districts ; it is rare and not by any means a regular 
winter visitor. (7. H. Fleming.) I met with two birds of this species 
at Whitney, Parry Sound Railway in December, 1898,and obtained 
another in the same month at Scotia Junction. (/. Hughes- 
Samuel.) No recent record of this species in the London district. 
(W. E. Saunders.) 
This species is an irregular winter visitant in Manitoba, but 
Mr. Hunter states he is positive that it is a permanent resident 
and breeds in the wooded country east of the Red River. It is 
certainly common and very abundant some winters. (Zkompson- 
Seton.) This is a common species throughout the Northwest 
‘Territories, and from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. In summer it 
feeds principally on mice and insects, but in winter it preys 
chiefly on ptarmigan. (Rzchardson.) North to the Arctic coast 
on the Mackenzie ; common. (oss.) This is perhaps the most 
abundant resident bird of prey throughout the entire wooded part 
of northern Alaska. It is rather closely limited to the region of 
spruce and pine forests of the interior, and occurs along the open 
coasts of the Arctic and Behring Sea merely as a straggler, and 
is unknown from the various islands of Behring Sea. (WVe/son.) 
This species is a very common resident in the Yukon district. 
Along the coast it is quite abundant. (Zurner.) Rock Creek, 
Lake Osyoos. (Zord.) A resident east of the Coast Range ; 
west occasionally to Vancouver island; breeds along the valley 
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