720 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
found in the neighbourhood of trading posts and lonely settlers; 
a common summer resident at Banff, Rocky Mountains, replaced 
to the west by propingua[?] (Macoun.) A very abundant summer 
visitor at Prince Albert, Sask.; breeding throughout the country. 
(Coubeaux.) Very abundant at Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan, 
though none were seen at Chemawawin. (Vuttimg.) Very abundant 
between Edmonton and Athabasca Landing; more plentiful at 
the latter place than anywhere else; only one pair seen between 
Athabasca Landing and Lesser Slave River; none down the Atha- 
basca to Fort McMurray, there very common; none up the Clear- 
water to Methye Portage, but common there; seen here and there 
where there are clearings from Methye Lake to Isle ala Crosse. 
(J. M. Macoun.) Quite common at Edmonton, Alta., first seen 
April 16th, by May 6th many were building nests and early in 
June eggs were hatched; common in the foothills to the Inter- 
national Boundary; quite common from the mouth of Lesser Slave 
River to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15’, in June, 1903. (Spread- 
borough.) This species appeared at Carlton House on April 22nd, 
1827, in Lat. 53°; the same season it reached Fort Chipweyan in 
Lat. 5834° on May 7th and Fort Franklin in Lat. 65° on the 2oth of 
the same month. (Azchardson.) North to Lapierre’s House, on 
the Mackenzie River; abundant. (Ross.) This isacommon bird 
both at Fort Anderson and on the banks of the Swan and Wil- 
mot-Horton rivers in the Barren Grounds. (MMJacfarlane.) Rare 
migrant at Chilliwack. (Bvooks.) 
Throughout the entire wooded portion of Alaska this bird is 
found more or less numerous during summer, and along the tree- 
less coast of Behring Sea and Kotzebue Sound it appears merely 
as a straggler in the migrations. (JVe/son.) This species is quite 
common at Fort Yukon, where it breeds. (Zurner.) One indi- 
vidual seen on St. Paul Island, Alaska, in October, 1872. (E//o¢t.) 
The miners that we met at Hope and Sunrise, Cook’s Inlet, 
Alaska, reported that the “regular eastern robin” had often 
been seen there. We did not observe it ourselves in the month 
of August, the time of our stay at these points. (Osgood.) Tol- 
erably common at Haines and Skagway, but not at Glacier. At 
Haines I took a female and four well-incubated eggs, June 2nd. 
Robins were common at Log Cabin, June 15th, and were found 
regularly but in gradually decreasing numbers until August Ist, 
when the last was. noted near Sixty-mile Creek. A flock seen 
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