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the parent bird on a nest which was built on the top of a tall 
spruce in the lower Anderson River ; another was taken near Fort 
Anderson on 5th May, 1866. (MJacfarlane.) This species arrived 
at Indian Head, Assa., before April Ist, 1892, as they were 
numerous at that date ; they were building nests by the 27th and 
on May 6th I found a nest with five eggs, which was in a willow 
tree; the nest was made of sticks lined with dried grass; this 
species was found in pairs nearly all over Assiniboia in 1895 
wherever there was wood, but none were seen in Alberta until we 
reached Waterton Lake at the base of the Rocky Mountains ; 
common at Crane Lake, Medicine Hat, Cypress Hills, Moose Jaw, 
and around Old Wives’ Lake and Creek, also at Wood Mountain ; 
not seen in the Rocky Mountains at Banff in 1891; rather rare 
along the Columbia River flats at Revelstoke ; heard them at Pass 
Creek, Columbia River, B.C., June, 1890; May 8th, 1894, examined 
a number of nests at Medicine Hat, Assa., but only found one egg; 
a few were breeding at Crane Lake, June 12th; found a nest with 
four young ones; at the east end of Cypress Hills a few 
pairs were breeding the last week in June. (Spreadborough.) 
Abundant and surprisingly tame at the Grand Rapids of the 
Saskatchewan; young crows make themselves at home on the 
houses and in the door-yards at Grand Rapids. (Wwtting.) This 
bird is our first harbinger of spring. As soon as the snow begins 
to melt and show the ground, they arrive, by twos, by threes, by 
fours, and then in greater numbers, filling the air with their cries. 
They mate very early and begin to build their nests long before 
the leaves begin to appear. (Coubeaux.) Very numerous at 
Buffalo Lake, near Methye Portage, Lat. 56°, and at Isle a 
la Crosse, feeding on dead fish; a few specimens between 
Red Deer River and Athabasca Landing, about a dozen in all. 
(J. M. Macoun.) Common summer resident east of Coast Range, 
B.C. (Fannin.) 
BREEDING Notes.—The bulk of the crows, which are migrants, 
begin to arrive here about the Ist of March and commence build- 
ing nests in April. One nest examined on April 30th, 1882, con- 
tained six eggs incubated, and another one, May 24th, 1882, con- 
tained younglings, and a nest, May 11th, 1889, had four eggs in- 
cubated. They breed in Mount Royal Park and all over the island 
of Montreal. The bulk of the crows in this district migrate south 
before the month of December. (MWinile.) On June 6th, 1884, 
