1908^^] Seton, Recent Bird Records for Manitoba. 453 



Assiniboine near Winnipeg he saw a Barred Owl in a tree. Also he secured 

 a specimen from Riding Mountain in January, 1905; it was killed by T. 

 S. Kittson, and had in its stomach a flying squirrel. 



White Horned Owl. Bubo virginianus arcticus. In A. Calder's 

 collection are two superb specimens of this northern race. They were- 

 taken recently at Winnipeg. 



Burrowing Owl. Speotyto cunicularia hypogwa. In August, 1899',. 

 at the taxidermist shop of G. E. Atkinson, Portage la Prairie, Man., I saw 

 two Burrowing Owls that were taken by a farmer about four miles north- 

 west of the town, on June 2, 1897. Two others were brought to the shop 

 in May, 1899. % 



The specimen in my collection (No. 2594) is one of two taken at Morden, 

 Man., by D. Nicholson, the taxidermist. He reports it rare but regular 

 and increasing. Two others were taken in 1902. 



E. W. Darby tells me that it is becoming quite common along the Pipe- 

 stone and on the slope of Riding Mountain. 



In 1904 J. P. Turner found a nest eight miles northwest of Winnipeg. 

 The species utilizes the burrows of the Richardson ground squirrel for a 

 nesting place. 



?Lewis Woodpecker. Asyndesmns torquatus. My friend Geo. F. Guern- 

 sey, V. S., of Fort Qu' Appelle, Sask., one hundred miles west of Manitoba, 

 writes me Aug. 3, 1898: "I shot a Woodpecker last fall that I would like 

 you to identify. Size about as large as the Downy Woodpecker, black 

 tail, wings, back of neck and head with green lustre; belly, breast and 

 throat, rose color; very shy, I never saw one before." 



Red-shafted Flicker. Colaptes cafer collaris. A full plumaged fe- 

 male in my collection (No. 2546) was shot near Winnipeg Sept. 30, 1904, 

 by T. Dolphin. 



Crested Flycatcher. Myiarchus crinitus. Now shown to be quite 

 common along the Assiniboine. On Aug. 29, 1904, I got one at Lake 

 Winnipegosis. This is the northernmost that I know of. 



English Sparrow. Passer domesticus. This species is now found in 

 all the settled portions of Manitoba and at every farmhouse and in all the 

 towns of the northwest as far as Athabaska Landing, Alberta, about N. 

 Latitude 55°, W. Longitude 113°. It first appeared at Carberry in 1892 

 but was not found in numbers until 1894. 



Gray-crowned Finch. Leucosticte tephrocotis. A specimen has 

 reached me from Birtle where it was taken in January, 1891, by Geo. Cope- 

 land. It is there called 'Pink Snowbird.' 



Nelson Sparrow. Ammodramus caudacutus nelsoni. In 1892 I found 

 this sparrow abundant at Carberry and secured specimens, both breeding: 

 and migrant. In 1901 I found it common at Shoal Lake. In my col- 

 lection are three specimens taken at Winnipeg. There can be little doubt 

 that it is found throughout southwestern Manitoba and breeds wherever 

 found. 



Indigo Bunting. Cyanospiza cyanea. A specimen, a male adult 



