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(A. F. Young.) Eight specimens, including one in juvenal plumage, 
were collected at York Factory, Hudson Bay, July 12th to 16th, 
1900, where the birds were abundant, and a very bright male was 
taken at Fort Churchill, July 23rd. (4. A. Prebles.) 
An abundant fall and winter visitor in Manitoba; feeding 
on the seeds of various plants. (Zhompson-Seton.) A few 
specimens were seen on the Clearwater River below Methye 
Portage; common on the portage. (/. MZ. Macoun.) A common 
and regular winter visitor near Prince Albert, Sask., ar- 
riving in small flocks nearly at the same time as the pine gros- 
beak and remaining sometimes late in the spring. (Coube ux.) 
This neat and hardy bird is one of the permanent residents in the 
Northwest Territories where it may be seen in the coldest weather 
on the banks of lakes and rivers, hopping among reeds and carices 
or clinging to their stalks. (Azchardson.) North to Fort Good 
Hope on the Mackenzie River ; abundant. (oss.) This species 
was just as abundant as the Greenland redpoll in the wooded 
country, and we procured as many nests as of it. (Macfarlane.) 
This species was seen in large flocks at Indian Head, Assa., 
during the first three weeks of April, 1892, after which they all 
disappeared. April 7th, 1894, saw a flock of sixteen at Medicine 
Hat, Assa. Two specimens were seen at Edmonton, Alta., on 
April 19th, 1897 ; common in flocks around Revelstoke, B.C., up 
to the last of April, 1890; seen at the lower end of Lower Arrow 
Lake, Columbia River, June 18th, 1890. (Spreadborough.) An 
abundant summer resident in British Columbia. (Zord.) Common 
throughout the province. (/annin.) Irregular winter visitant at 
Chilliwack; common winter resident at Lake Okanagon, B.C.,also 
common in the Cariboo district in winter. (Brooks.) This species 
is found in Alaska in smaller numbers than the preceding. On 
the southeastern coast of the territory, including Kadiak and the 
Sitkan region, the present bird is found to the exclusion of the 
other. (Velson.) This species is a common resident of all parts 
of Alaska, excepting the Aleutian Islands. In the latter district 
it is asummer visitor only, though breeding there I have never 
observed it west of Unalaska Island. (Zwurner.) Large flocks were 
seen frequently both at Hope and Tyonek, Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, 
in August, 1900. (Osgood.) Of the 112 skins taken at Kotzebue 
Sound only seven were referable to this species. Although few 
were taken they evidently breed in the country as specimens were 
