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upon the prairie levels when they were visited. Later in the season, 

 Young reports that they were common at Camp 11 in early morning 

 when they came down from the Prairie level to drink at the river. Speci- 

 mens from Camp 1 and 11, also two Morrin birds, August and July, Geo. 

 Sternberg. 



108. Icterus galbula. Baltimore Oriole. — Horsbrough records 

 the nesting of the Baltimore Oriole at Red Deer and Farley pronounces it 

 common. Neither seem to be acquainted with Bullock's. In our col- 

 lections are specimens of galbula from Edmonton and bidlocki from Medi- 

 cine Hat where, however, Spreadborough also noted the former. Possibly 

 the division between the two occurs somewhere between the two cities and 

 the Baltimore is the form at Red Deer. 



109.* Icterus bullocki. Bullock's Oriole. — Only two orioles 

 seen and those two of this species. Taken at Camp 11, Little Sandhill 

 Creek, August 29. 



110.* Euphagus carolinus. Rusty Blackbird. — One specimen, 

 Alix, Alberta, April 22, 1914, by Horsbrough who infers in his annotations 

 that it is only a migrant at Red Deer though Farley reports it as with 

 Brewer's, — " a very common spring and fall migrant and quite plentiful 

 breeding along the streams in the willows." I was hardly prepared to 

 regard this as a breeder in this locality. 



111.* Euphagus cyanocephalus. Brewer's Blackbird. — Gen- 

 erally distributed throughout the river valley but nowhere exceedingly 

 common. Young noted a large migrant flock at Camp 11, Little Sandhill 

 Creek, the middle of September. Specimens, Camp 1 and 11. Farley 

 reports it breeding along the streams in the willows. 



112*. Quiscalus quiscula. Crow Blackbird. — Only a few seen 

 at Camp 1, about Brock's Lake where they were nesting in Flicker holes. 

 One specimen, Camp 1, another Buffalo Lake, August, 1915. — Horsbrough. 

 Regarded as common by all correspondents. 



1 13. Hesperiphona vespertina. Evening Grosbeak. — Farley says, 

 — " The Evening Grosbeak is not regular in winter. It comes for about 

 a month about every other winter, always feeding on the seeds of the 

 Manitoba Maple." Red Deer Specimens, May 6, in Fleming's collection. 



114. Pinicola enucleator. Pine Grosbeak. — Farley says, — " Pine 

 Grosbeaks are fairly common all winter especially along the rivers in the 

 spruce, — never saw them after May 1." Horsbrough lists them under 

 P. e. leucura on J. H. Fleming's determination based upon a bird with an 

 imperfect bill. I have examined this bird but the subspecific characters 

 are so faintly indicated in our comparative series that I prefer to withhold 

 judgment upon the determination. 



115.* Carpodacus purpureus. Purple Finch. — Not seen on the 

 upper river at all and at Camp 11, Little Sandhill Creek, only after I left. 

 Young reports that beginning August 18, he noted one to five daily to 

 September 7. He observes that they were feeding on the seeds of the 

 black birch. One specimen, Camp 11, August 18. Listed by Farley as 



