CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 3g1 
Famity XLI. STURNIDAS $ Star_incs. 
CLXXIV. STURNUS Linnzus. 1758. 
493. Starling. 
Sturnus vulgaris LINN. 1758. 
A single specimen sent by Holbcell to Copenhagen. (Arct. 
Man.) 
Famity XLII. ICTERIDA. Brackerrps, ORIOLES, Xc. 
CLXXV. DOLICHONYX Swainson. 1827. 
494. Bobolink. 
Dolichonyx oryzivorus (LINN.) SWAINS. 1527. 
Summer resident on Cape Breton Island; but rare. (Dwrghd.) 
Common in summer; breeds in all the marshes in Nova Scotia. 
(Downs.) One seen at North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, May 
24th, 1901; common on the meadows at Amherst, N.S. (C. 2. 
Harte.) Abundant in summer along the Cornwallis valley, N.S. 
(H. Tufts.) A common summer resident in New Brunswick. 
(Chamberlain.) An abundant summer resident in suitable places at 
Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (!!.. Moore.) A common summer 
resident in Quebec. (Déonne.) An abundant summer resident 
around Montreal. (Wintle.) 
A common summer resident at Ottawa; breeds on the Ex- 
perimental Farm. (Osawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) One of the 
species that is finding its way northward. It is only a new 
arrival in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. I saw a 
female at Emsdale in May, 1899; she was seen later in the sum- 
mer with a male and a brood of young. Mr. Tavernier saw the 
first one at Beaumaris in August, 1897, and reported them as in- 
creasing in 1898. (J. H. Fleming.) In spite of the slaughter of 
these birds in the rice fields it is yet common in the London 
district ; it is more rare in the Bruce peninsula, and a few were 
noted on Manitoulin Island in 1880. (W. &. Saunders.) 
At Pembina in June, bobolinks were breeding in large numbers 
on the open prairie adjoining the Red River. The ground near 
the river has a meadowy character, which seems exactly to suit 
them, and they were evidently perfectly at home. On Late4on 
I traced the species westward to the Rocky Mountains, where it 
