IO DwiGHT, Stimmer Birds of Prince Ed-ward Island. L Tan. 



Empidonax flaviventris. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. — Found 

 only at Tignish and in small numbers. The dryness of the other localities 

 visited would partly account for its absence. The scarcity of this and the 

 following species rather surprised me. 



Empidonax pusillus traillii. Traill's Flycatcher. — A few at 

 Tignish in their favorite haunts, the alders, were the only ones met with. 

 It is likely that both this species and the preceding are in some other 

 localities more abundant than my observations would indicate. 



Empidonax minimus. Least Flycatcher.— A cheerful series of 

 'che-becs' greeted me one morning at Souris. It is really easier to distin- 

 guish this bird from traillii by its notes than by the bird in hand, but the 

 bird in hand is, unfortunately perhaps, a scientific necessity. No others 

 were seen. 



Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. — Not abundant, and only occasionally 

 met with. No Perisoreus canadensis were even heard of. 



TCorvuscorax principalis Raven. — I was told that a pair of Ravens had 

 formerly nested for several years on the face of the cliff at East Point, and 

 while I think my informant could have made no mistake as to the species, 

 I hesitate about admitting a bird to the list on hearsay only.] 



Corvus americanus. American Crow. — Nowhere, in the breeding 

 season, have I ever seen Crows so abundant and so tame. They were 

 never out of sight or hearing, and they sit on the fences and 'caw' at you 

 derisively as you ride by. Of course their numbers were augmented by 

 young birds, and early in July they were beginning to flock, as indicated 

 by a gathering of nearly a hundred seen July 4. At Tignish there was a 

 roost in a large patch of woods, whither towards sundown and later 

 Crows were seen converging from all directions. In the woods a terrible 

 noise was kept up until it grew dark. The Crows do not molest the 

 farmer to any great extent, as he raises no corn, but I was told they kill 

 young chickens and pick out the eyes of new-born lambs. They daily 

 congregate for a feast in the fields where the refuse of the many lobster- 

 canning establishments is used as a fertilizer. 



Scolecophagus carolinus. Rusty Blackbird. — A flock of twenty or 

 more, largely young birds, near East Point July 7, were the only ones 

 seen. I had heard of their occurence elsewhere. 



Quiscalus quiscula seneus. Bronzed Grackle. — A pair of these 

 birds in Prof. Earle's possession were the only ones he had ever seen, very 

 likely stragglers from the mainland. 



Carpodacus purpureus. Purple Finch. — Sparingly distributed, a 

 restless and roving species, and seen singly or in pairs. 



Loxia curvirostra minor. American Crossbill. — Perhaps more 

 abundant than the following species, but the flocks are so often made up 

 of birds of both species, and so much more frequently seen or heard flying 

 overhead rather than allowing a closer examination, that it is difficult to 

 estimate their numbers. At any rate both were occasionally seen in 

 flocks of old and young, sometimes one species predominating (usually 

 the flock was almost entirely made up of one species), sometimes the 



