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spruce tree. When we picked it up, we were astonished to find one foot 

 entirely missing, and it certainly was not a mutilation that had lately 

 occurred, for the end of the stump of the tarsus was completely healed 

 and well worn, as though it had always been in this condition. About an 

 inch of the tarsus was there. It was a male bird, in good plumage and 

 condition ; the stomach was filled with food, mostly earth worms. We 

 were afterwards told by a person living near by, that he had observed a 

 crow the previous summer that had a very queer way of hopping about 

 on the fields while feeding. — C. W. G. Eifrig, Ottawa, Out. 



An Unusual Abundance of the Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) in 

 and near Ottawa, Ont. — Whereas the winter from 1903 to 1904 was nota- 

 ble for the abundance of the Pine Grosbeak (Pinico/or enucleator) in the 

 streets of Ottawa, their early arrival and long staying, this last winter 

 was notable for the abundance of the Canada Jay. Mr. E. White, a very 

 reliable ornithologist, tells me he has never before seen them in or very 

 near the city, but this year they were about all winter. I saw the first 

 ones September 28 in the next county, but by October 7 th> y were near 

 Ottawa; on October 13 I saw three on the driveway in the heart of the 

 city. Some were taken and brought or reported to me on October 15, 

 20, 22, 28, November 8 and 12. November 19 to 23, while on a trip of 

 forty miles north into Quebec, I saw them frequently, especially where 

 farmers had butchered or skinned hares, at the kitchen refuse, etc. One 

 was taken February 2 at the city limits, and I saw one March 1 in the 

 neighborhood. The reaso-n for their unusual abundance is not clear. 

 Their usual food supply, which I think is not great in any winter, was 

 surely there last winter, the lumber camps, about which they congregate, 

 not having diminished in number. — C. W. G. Eifrig, Ottawa, Ont. 



Hoary Redpoll in Montana. — I am able to record another occurrence 

 of the Hoary Redpoll (Acantn/s hornemannii exilipes) in Montana. On 

 March 9, a Hoary Redpoll alighted with two common Redpolls (Acanthi's 

 linaria), on some rails close to where my wife and I were standing. I 

 had my binoculars with me but they were not required, as the bird was 

 only eight paces distant and could be easily examined. While exactly 

 the same size as its two companions it was much handsomer; the crim- 

 son crown contrasted with the light-colored back, which, but for some 

 black streaks, would have looked white. There were no signs of pink, on 

 the breast, and I took it to be an unusually pale female of this species. 

 As I never before met with a specimen among the many hundreds of 

 Redpolls observed since 1S89, I regard the Hoary Redpoll as a very rare 

 bird here. — E. S. Cameron, Terry, Mont. 



A curious Anomaly in the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotric/iia 

 a Ibicollis).— On Sept. 28, 1904, I took at Germanicus, Renfrew Co., 



