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resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Tolerably common 
summer resident in York Co.,N. B. (W. A. Moore.) Common 
summer resident in Quebec, taken at Beauport. (Dzonne.) Ob- 
served at Gaspé Bay and Mingan Harbour, Que., rather common 
in the latter locality. (Bvewster.) Specimens obtained at York 
Factory and at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, where it is rare. (Dy. 
R. Bell.) Common at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec ; breeds, 
(J. M. Macoun.) Rather common on Prince Edward Island at 
Brackley Beach, 1888. Rather common on Cape Breton Island, 
July, 1898. (Macoun.) Summer resident in the Magdalen 
Islands. (Bzshop.) Very common in the valley of the Resti- 
gouche, N.B. (Brittain & Cox.) Abundant summer resident at 
Ottawa; breeds. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) This bird is gen- 
erally distributed throughout Ontario, arriving in April and leay- 
ing in September. (Mcllwraith.) This species is abundant in 
Algonquin Park ; there were five nests in a railway ballast pit at 
Cache Lake in 1900. (Spreadborough.) Breeds near Toronto, 
Ont.; abundant everywhere in the Muskoka and Parry Sound 
districts. (/. H. Fleming.) During the winter of 1894, three of 
these birds spent the winter near a secluded stream a few miles 
north of Toronto, Ont. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) Common on every 
stream and river. They are observed so late in the fall and so 
early in spring that they must winter near London. A few have 
been observed in the winter at London and more often nearer 
Lake Erie. (W.&. Saunders.) A common summer resident along 
all fish-frequented streams and lakes in Manitoba. It arrives 
towards the last of April and leaves when the winter sets in. 
I have never seen this species in the vicinity of any of the drain- 
age lakes, although they abound in Amblystome, insects, etc., to 
the exclusion, however, of fish. (Zhompson-Seton.) This species 
is more widely distributed or more easily seen than any other 
species noted between Manitoba and the Pacific Coast. In 18q2, 
1894 and 1895 it was found on all streams visited in the prairie 
region ; common on the Saskatchewan and its northern tributaries 
in 1896; on all streams south of Calgary in 1897; abundant at 
Banff in 1891; in 1890 it was found on the Columbia between 
Revelstoke and the International Boundary ; in 1889 from 
Revelstoke to the coast at the mouth of the Fraser river; in 
1893 it was found common everywhere by streams on Vancouver 
Island ; in 1898 Mr. Spreadborough found it abundant on the 
upper Athabasca; in I9go01 rather rare on Chilliwack river and 
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