454 Seton, RecejU Birrl Records for Manitoba. \_o^. 



(No. 2531 Seton Coll.), was killed on June 3, 1893, by Wm. R. Hine near 

 St. Boniface, between the Seine and Assiniboine Rivers, on the land 

 between the Bishop's Marsh and the River Seine. 



Another adult male was taken at Estevan, South Saskatchewan, by D. 

 L. Thorpe 29 May, 1893. Estevan is eighty miles west of Manitoba. 



In the collection of Father Blain, St. Boniface College, is an extraordinary 

 specimen killed at Winnipeg. After careful examination E. A. Preble 

 and I agree that it is probably a hybrid Indigo Bunting X Common 

 Canary; may be escaped from captivity. With the general form and 

 color of an Indigo Bunting female, it has some patches of yellow, and a 

 white tail and wings. 



DicKCissEL OR Black-throated Bunting. Spiza americana. August 

 10, 1899, I was shown an adult specimen of this bird, by G. E. Atkinson 

 who shot it at Portage la Prairie, June 14, 1897. This was recorded in 

 Man. Free Press, 5 March, 1904. 



Scarlet Tanager. Piranga erythromelas. I have seen two specimens 

 that w^ere taken at Winnipeg in 1892 ; one in the collection of Geo. Grieve, 

 the other in the collection of W. R. Hine. He also took another and 

 saw a third in 1888. It was about the end of May during a sudden cold 

 spell; the third he saw on the bank of Red River in the city limits; he 

 was within two yards of it for some time, but did not collect it. 



Saw^-winged Swallow. Stelgidopteryx serripennis. In the Manitoba 

 Museum is a specimen of this swallow taken at Winnipeg by W. R. Hine. 



Arctic Bluebird. Sialia arctica. E. H. Patterson secured one of a 

 pair that he found at a place two miles west of Brandon, Man., and sent 

 the same to G. E. Atkinson, who recorded it in Man. Free Press, 5 March, 

 1904. To this Norman Criddle of Aweme, Man., adds (Ottawa Naturalist, 

 July 1904, pp. 85, 86) that the species is by no means uncommon about the 

 Carberry Sandhills, and that he has taken numerous nests there. 



