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common, but from three to jtwelve birds in a flock. (Morrell.) 
Three seen on Sable Island, N.S., April 2rst ; one in July and a 
number in October, 1902. (James Bouteillier.) 
An abundant winter resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) 
A common winter visitor at Scotch Lake, York “Co., N.B. 
(W. FH. Moore.) Leave Lake Mistissini, Que., forthe north about 
May toth. (/. M. Macoun.) A common winter resident in 
eastern Quebec. (Dionne.) Abundant winter visitant at Mont- 
real, arrives about the middle of October in large flocks. I have 
observed them at Montreal from October Igth to April 26th. 
(Wintle.) A common winter visitor at Ottawa, Ont. (Otewa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) Commonly seen in large flocks durirg winter. 
I saw immense numbers at the head of Wolfe Island, near Kings- 
ton, Ont.,in October, 1900, just before-cold weather set in. Flocks 
remained until March, 1901. This bird, though nesting com- 
monly in high latitudes sometimes rears its young on lofty moun- 
tains. A friend of mine found the nest on the Grampian Moun- 
tains in Invernesshire, Scotland. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Abundant. 
in the winter in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts ; the last 
leave for the north soon after the Ist of May, and some are back 
by the Ist of October. (J. H. Fleming.) A winter visitor at 
Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) An abundant winter resident at 
Penetanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) 
Very abundant in early spring; fall and winter resident in 
Manitoba. (Zhompson-Seton.) Very abundant in the spring and 
fall migrations at Indian Head, Assa.; a few at Egg Lake, near 
Peace River Lat. 56°, August 30th, and at Lesser Slave Lake, 
September 5th, 1903 ; on McLeod River northwest of Edmonton, 
Alta., saw three on October 2nd, 1898, and bundreds of them on 
the shore of Lake Ste. Anne, October 12th; verycommon at Banff 
in winter and doubtless eastward to Manitoba; seen at Revelstoke, 
B.C., April 9th, 1890, disappeared on the 11th. (Spreadborough.) 
This neat and elegant bird breeds in the northernmost of the Am- 
erican islands,and onall theshores of the continent, from Chester- 
field Inlet toBehring Strait. The most southerly breeding place 
recorded is Southampton Island in Lat. 62°, where Captain Lyons 
found a nest placed in the bosom of the corpse of an Eskimo 
child. (Rechardson.) North to Fort Good Hope on the Mackenzie; 
abundant. (Ross.) On the 8th July, 1864, a nest of this species 
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