CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 429 
winters; rare during other winters; none observed during sum- 
mer; breeds in central portion of Labrador and resident there. 
(Packard.) Common throughout the year in Newfoundland. 
(Reeks.) Irregularly abundant after the breeding season in Nova 
Scotia. (Downs.) Occasionally seen in flocks at Baddeck and 
Margaree, Cape Breton Island, N.S., July, 1898; a very large flock 
in spruce woods at Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island, June, 
1888. (Macoun.) Rather common on Prince Edward Island. 
(Dwight.) Very erratic. Remained at Sydney, Cape Breton 
Island, all winter, 1898-99, and bred freely the following February 
and March. Ivan Bayley found manynests. The birds left very 
suddenly in April, leaving several broods of young. (C. R. Harte.) 
Seen in King’s Co., N.S., only in winter and early spring, and are 
of irregular occurrence. They frequent the tops of spruce and fir 
trees where they gather the seeds from the cones. (/7. 7zfés.) 
Common winter resident at St. John, N.B.; a few breed every 
spring. (C%amberlain.) On July 24th I observed a flock of eight 
or ten individuals at Ellis Bay, Anticosti. (Brewster.) Seen 
during the winter at Lake Mistassini, Quebec. (/. JZ. Macoun.) 
Common on Grindstone and Entry islands, and probably on 
other islands of the Magdalen Islands. (4zshop,) Common winter 
visitor at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B., in 1899, previously rare. 
(W. H. Moore.) A common summer resident in eastern Quebec. 
(Dionne.) A common but transient visitor at Montreal. I sawa 
flock of this species feeding on the cones of cedar trees at 
Hochelaga, Que., on December 8th, 1888. (W2nd/e.) 
A large flock of this species was seen near Beechwood ceme- 
tery, Ottawa, Ont., in June, 1882. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
I saw this bird commonly in the Magdalen Islands in the month of 
June, 1897,and have no doubt but that it breeds there in the spruce 
woods though I could not with certainty locate a.nest. In that 
same year, in the monthof April, I saw three of these birds on an 
island in the St. Lawrence, near Lansdowne, Ont., feeding on some 
hemlock trees and frequently alighting on the ground in search 
of hemlock seeds. (Rev. C.J. Young.) Not as abundant as the 
preceding, but found in both districts. (/. H. Fleming.) A few 
seen almost every season, but never really abundant, at Toronto; 
I. found them particularly abundant at Whitney, near Algonquin 
Park, Ont., in the fall of 1898 and fairly so at Kaladar, Addington 
