CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 427 
In the breeding season the yellow-headed blackbird gathers in 
colonies in some marshy spot. At Pembina it was breeding in the 
prairie sloughs with the black terns and red-wings. (Coues.) A 
common summer resident of the deeper sloughs of the prairie region; 
more plentiful to the southward in Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) This 
bird is very numerous in the Northwest Territories and ranges as 
far north as lat. 58°, but was not seen east of Lake Winnipeg. (fzch- 
ardson.) I once observed this bird at Fort Simpson, on the Mac- 
kenzie river, lat. 62°. (Ross.) Abundant at Chemawawin, near 
the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan, breeding in a slough. (Nut- 
ting.) Scarce between the forks of the Saskatchewan, though fre- 
quently seen in company with the red-wings; breeding in the region. 
(Coubeaux.) Rather rare at Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) Abundant 
by marshes in Manitoba and in similar places in 1906 as far west as 
Edmonton along the G.T.P: Ry. (Atkinson.) This is a common 
species at Indian Head and Crane lake and in many other parts of 
eastern Saskatchewan; rather common at Edmonton in northern 
Alberta, where it bred in small communities in 1897. It was com- 
mon in 1895 between Moose Jaw and Old Wives lakes. This species 
requires even a wetter country than the red-wing for nesting in, as 
its nests are always in reeds or tall grass. It was common in June, 
1895, at 12-Mile lake, near Wood mountain, building numerous 
nests in the dry reeds (Typha latifolia) and rushes (Scirpus lacustris). 
There were no eggs, yet on the same date in 1894, at Crane lake, 
there were young in many nests and it was difficult to get unhatched 
eggs. The cause of the absence of eggs was evidently the lateness 
of the season, as on June 7th we had an all-day snow-storm. <A few 
were seen at Wood Mountain Post; the last specimens were noted 
about 50 miles west of that point. Later, three specimens were 
noted at Spur creek, north of Milk river-and a few in its valley at 
Kennedy crossing; only one specimen seen and shot on May 25th, 
1890, at Revelstoke, B.C.; one seen in the rushes at a lake near 
Sidley, B.C., May 12th, 1905. (Spreadborough.) A rare summer 
resident on the mainland east of the Coast range. I have taken it 
above Clinton on the Cariboo road, B.C. (Fannin.) A young male 
was shot at Vernon, B.C. Mr. D. McKinley reports them as occa- 
sionally visiting the cattle corrals at Lac la Hache. (Rhoads.) I have 
two records of this species for Chilliwack, B.C.; noticed only one at 
150-Mile House, Cariboo district, B.C., 1901, as a straggler. (Brooks.) 
