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Dr. Coucs, in 'Birds of the Northwest.' 1S74, .i,nves its range 

 as ''Rocky Mountains to tlie Pacific, United States. North to 

 the Saskatchewan (Richardson). Eastward along the northern 

 tier of States to Lake Superior reguhirly, to Ohio, Canada, and 

 New York City, casually. South to the table-lands of Mexico." 

 Dr. Coues said in 1879, "Notes concerning its distribution will 

 long continue to be acceptable contributions." 



The A. O. U. Check-List, 18S6, says : "Western North Amer- 

 ica east to Lake Superior, and casually to Ohio and Ontario ; 

 from the Fur Countries south into Mexico " 



The British Museum Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XII, gives re- 

 cords from places as for apart as Oregon, New Mexico, and 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico. Sumichrast noted it in the Valley of Mex- 

 ico in 1857, and Prof. A. L. Hererra in 'La Naturale/.a,' sec- 

 ond series, Vol. I, No. 4, 1SS8, also notes it there, with the 

 remark: "They come into the Valley of Mexico in small flocks 

 in October, and leave in February." 



While from tiiese statements one gets some idea of its range, 

 yet the knowledge is but approximate, as we are just beginning 

 to understand anything at all of its distribution. The Valley of 

 Mexico appears to be as far south as it has been found. There it 

 spends its summers among the mountains and descends to the 

 Valley to winter. It has been taken at intervals from there north, 

 throughout the coniferous region, from the deserts of Arizona to 

 the Barren Grounds of Arctic America. It spends the summer 

 in the northwestern United States and western British America, 

 from just east of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. From 

 there it migrates very irregularly in autumn to the eastward, cas- 

 ually reaching over a greater or less part of the eastern United 

 States, nortli of a line drawn from the mouth of the Oliio east to 

 the Atlantic. Dr. Kirtland, in the 'Ohio Farmer', March 24, 

 i860, mentioned that the previous week on a certain day a female 

 of this species was secured by a gentleman, and the following day 

 he saw several others (near Cleveland). He said it had never 

 before been taken east of Lake Miciiigan, but notes that Dr. Hoy 

 has occasionally found it near Racine, Wisconsin. Dr. J. M. 

 Wheaton, in his 'Catalogue of Ohio Birds,' 1860 [1S61], men- 

 tioned the capture of a .specimen at Columbus in 1S47, which he 

 became satisfied was an error and afterwards corrected. 



Mr. Thomas Mcllwraith informs us of the first four records of 

 the occurrence of these birds within the Province of Ontario, — 



