CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 419 
1874. (Coues.) A common summer resident throughout Mani- 
toba. (E£.T. Seton.) This crow is seen in the interior of the North- 
west Territories in summer only and does not go beyond lat. 55° 
nor approach within five or six hundred miles of Hudson bay- 
(Richardson.) North on the Mackenzie river to lat. 61°; abundant. 
(Ross.) On the roth May, 1865, an Eskimo snared the parent 
bird on a nest which was built on the top of a tall spruce on the 
lower Anderson river; another was taken near Fort Anderson on 
5th May, 1866. (Macfarlane.) This species arrived at Indian 
Head, Sask., before April 1st, 1892, as they were numerous at that 
date; they were building nests by the 27th and on May 6th I found 
a nest with five eggs, which was in a willow tree; the nest was made 
of sticks and lined with dried grass; this species was found in pairs 
nearly all over Saskatchewan in 1895, wherever there was wood, 
but none was seen in Alberta until we reached Waterton lake at 
the base of the Rocky mountains; common at Crane lake, Medicine 
Hat, Cypress hills, Moose Jaw, and around Old Wives lake and 
creek, also at Wood mountain; none seen north of Lesser Slave 
lake in 1903; May 8th, 1894, examined a number of nests at Medi- 
cine Hat, Sask., but only found one egg; a few were breeding at 
Crane lake, June 12th; found a nest with four young ones; at the 
east end of Cypress hills a few pairs were breeding the last week in 
June. (Spreadborough.) Everywhere abundant from Manitoba 
west to Edmonton, Alta. (Atkinson.) Abundant and surprisingly 
tame at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan; young crows make 
themselves at home on the houses and in the door-yards at Grand 
Rapids. (Nutting.) This bird is our first harbinger of spring. As 
soon as the snow begins to melt and show the ground, they arrive, 
by twos, by threes, by fours, and then in greater numbers, filling 
the air with their cries, They mate very early and begin to build 
their nests long before the leaves begin to appear. (Coubeaux.) 
Very numerous at Buffalo lake, near Methye portage, lat. 56°, and 
at Isle a la Crosse, feeding on dead fish; a few specimens between 
Red Deer river and Athabaska landing, about a dozen in all. (/. 
M. Macoun.) 
BREEDING NoTes.—The bulk of the crows, which are migrants, 
begin to arrive here about the 1st of March and commence build- 
ing nests in April. One nest examined on April 30th, 1882, con- 
tained six eggs incubated, and another one, May 24th, 1882, con- 
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