CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 557 
_ bers of them fly down to a pool of snow water in Queen’s Park to 
drink and bathe or rathersplash themselves. I saw four on 14th 
Dec., 1895—one on 5th March, 1896, with a flock of A. cedrorum ; 
ai sei (21st Wee a1s06. 2 csawia fine-tmale taken frome a 
small flock just north of the city. A few remained with us till 
late in April, and on the 16th of this month I saw them in the 
tall elms in University grounds, having changed their habits 
entirely, tor they were chasing every luckless winged insect that 
came in sight, and snapping their bills much after the manner 
of the flycatchers. Mr. Percival Turner_writes me that he saw 
a small flock in the English Church yard at Belleville on 6th 
February, 1900. (/. AHughes-Samuel.) 
Three were observed by Mr. Alfred E. Prebles in the stunted 
spruce woods near Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, on July 25th, 
gor. -—Mr. J. B. Tyrrell speaks of seeing a flock “in. a grove of 
birch trees near the shore of Theitaga Lake, on their breeding 
grounds.” This lake is situated about 300 miles slightly north of 
west of Fort Churchill. (4. A. Predbles.) A tolerably common 
winter resident in Manitoba. (Zhompson-Seton.) An uncommon 
straggler near Prince Albert, Sask.; shot once only, but twice 
noted in the spring of 1895. (Couwbeaux.) One specimen of this 
species in first plumage was shot on the mountain side adjoining 
Chief Mountain Lake (Waterton Lake) at an altitude of about 
4,200 feet in thick coniferous woods, where it was in company 
with numbers of Ampelts cedrorum. Being taken on August Ioth 
it was evidently in its summer home. (Cowes.) One specimen 
seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., April 11th, 1894, and another on the 
14th of the same month; a common species at Canmore, Rocky 
Mountains, in May, 1891, but no nests were seen. [In 1885, 
the writer shot young birds, on June 27th, at the same place, and 
had no doubt about nests being in the spruce woods that then 
filled the valley.] I believe that a colony, or more than one, of 
these birds exists on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 
and doubtless are permanent residents; saw a large flock on Lake 
Mountain, east of the Columbia River, on the International Boun- 
dary, B.C., Nov. 3rd, 1902; saw three near the summit of the Rocky 
Mountains in the Athabasca Pass, July 11th, 1898; also a flock of 
about fifty on the Brazeau River, September 24th, said to stay in 
the Mountains all winter. (Spreadborough.) This elegant bird has 
only lately been detected in America, having been discovered in 
