CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 383 
Partridge Island, near Parrsboro. (C. H. Morrell.) A common 
resident breeding in cliffs along the shore near Sydney, Cape 
Breton Island, incubation begun April 22nd, tgo1. (C. R. Harte.) 
Common resident, King’s Co., N.S. They often kill very young 
lambs. (77. 7zfts.) A rather rare resident in New Brunswick. 
(Chamberlain.) Occasionally seen at Magaree, Cape Breton 
Island, N.S., in July, 1898. (Macoun.) Breeds on the Magdalen 
Islands. (Szshop.) Rather generally distributed in the Gulf of 
St. Lawrence but nowhere abundant. (Bvrewster.) One specimen 
shot at Lake Mistassini, in northern Quebec, May 30th, 1885. 
(J. M. Macoun.) Taken at Beauport, a rare permanent resident 
in Quebec. (onne.) A rare winter resident ; occasionally visits 
the city river ice-dump. (Wintle.) Rare visitant to the north of 
Ottawa; occasionally seen near the city. (Ottawa Naturalist, 
Vol. V.) A common bird on the Magdalen Islands, breeding in 
the rocks and occasionally in the larger spruce trees. Rare in the 
cultivated parts of Ontario. I have seen a pair flying at a great 
height near Combermere, Renfrew Co., in the month of January. 
(Rev. C.J. Young.) A common resident in Parry Sound district ; 
rarer in Muskoka. (J. H. Fleming.) I met with one or more of 
these birds daily during a three week’s trip to Whitney, near 
- Algonquin Park, Ont., in the fall of 1898. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 
Very rare along the large marshes in the London district. (W.£. 
Saunders.) We saw several between Robinson Portage and Pine 
Lake, Keewatin, June 28th, and while descending Hill River, July 
8th, noticed a pair flying about the face of a high clay bank. 
Except for one specimen seen at Fort Churchill, July 30th, we 
did not again note the species. (Pvredles.) 
Occasionally observed on the International Boundary Lat. 
49°, but no specimens were taken. (Cowes.) A tolerably common 
winter visitant; probably nesting in the northern lands. (Zhomp- 
son-Seton.) This well-known bird abounds in the Northwest Ter- 
ritories and visits the remotest islands of the Arctic Sea. 
(Richardson.) North on the Mackenzie River to Arctic coast ; 
abundant. (oss.) This species is abundant at Fort Anderson 
and on the lower Lockhart and Anderson rivers; and although 
not seen by us there it may possibly breed on the shores of the 
Arctic Sea. (Macfarlane.) Everywhere throughout the entire 
territory of Alaska, including the shores of the Arctic Ocean and 
Behring Sea and the various islands of the latter, this bird is a 
well known resident. (/Velson.) This species is a resident 
