CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 407 
swamps at East Point, Magdalen Islands. (Lishop.) Common 
and breeding at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec. (/. MW. 
Macoun.) Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. (Wright) A common 
transient visitant in the Montreal district; arrives in small flocks 
in spring and passes further north to breed, returning in autumn 
in larger flocks. (W#ntle.) York Factory, Hudson Bay. (Dr. R. 
Bell.) 
A common springand autumn migrant; it may breed sparingly in 
the northern part of the Ottawa district. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 
V.) Ifound this bird breeding commonly in the Magdalen Islands. 
In the month of June the young were hatched and I secured two 
sets of eggs from there. In the summer of 1898 I saw one bird 
near Lansdowne, Ont., but in the month of October large flocks 
arrive from the north. (ev. C.J. Young.) Assembling in large 
flocks in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts; I am not aware that 
they breed in these districts. (/. H. Fleming.) 
Several seen and a female taken near the head of Echimamish, 
Keewatin, where they were undoubtedly breeding. Large flocks 
seen at Fort Churchill. Later, in the season of rgot, they were 
found abundant on the return south from York Factory. (Predles.) 
The rusty grackle enters Dakota from the north in September, 
and then mixes indiscriminately with Brewer’s blackbird; but the 
two will not be found together during the breeding season. 
(Coues.) An enormously abundant migrant in Manitoba in the 
spring and autumn migrations; a few may breed. (7Zhompson- 
Seton.) Common at Indian Head inthe spring of 1892; none 
were observed on the prairie in 1894 and 1895; in the spring of 
1897 they were abundant at Edmonton, Alta., and a nest was 
taken in a thicket overhanging a pool of water. (Spreadborough.) 
Common at Chemawawin, near the Grand Rapids of the Sas- 
katchewan. (/\uétimg.) Arrives in the spring in flocks between 
the forks of the Saskatchewan. (Coubeaux.) Abundant every- 
where between Calgary and Athabasca Landing in northern 
Alberta; rare at Fort McMurray in Lat. 56° 30’ ; not rare at 
Methye Portage; abundant between Methye Lake and Isle 4 la 
Crosse in 1888. (/. M7. Macoun.) This was a fairly common bird 
along the Kowak, Kotzebue Sound, from the delta eastward. 
They were seen in small flocks until September 8th, and the fol- 
lowing spring returned in flocks, May 22nd, after which they 
separated into smallergroups. (Gvinnell.) This sombre-coloured 
bird is the most northern of the American Sturnid@, its summer 
