CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 441 
Gradually pushing east it has always been rare at Toronto, but 
Mr. J. Hughes-Samuel found a pair nesting at Toronto island in 
the spring of 1900. (J. H. Fleming.) A few pairs nest in Saskat- 
chewan, but most of the birds go further north to nest. It is often 
confounded with Brewer’s blackbird as the nests and eggs resemble 
each other. (W. Raine.) Arrived at Edmonton, Alta., May 2oth, 
on June roth found a nest with four young and one egg. The nest 
was placed upon a spruce tree which had fallen a number of year” 
before and was bleached white by the weather and was hanging 
horizontally over a small pond that was in the heavy timber near 
the river. The tree was about a foot from the water, where the 
nest was. I also found an old nest upon a heap of old spruce brush 
in the same pond. The nest was made of dry grass. There were 
no weeds or. grass in the pond. June 13th, I saw young able to fly, 
these were in a dried-up slough in the heavy timber. (Spread- 
borough.) On the Magdalen islands this bird builds a nest very 
similar to that of the robin, all low down in the spruce near the end 
of thick boughs. (H. K. Job.) I found a nest in bushes over- 
hanging a small lake near Innisfail, Alta., in June, 1903 The one 
egg was taken and the female shot. I have never found this species 
nesting anywhere except in shrubs over water and I have never 
found Brewer’s blackbird nesting in such a situation. (W. E. 
Saunders.) 
510. Brewer Blackbird. 
Euphagus cyanocephalus (WaAGL.) CASSIN. 1867. 
I have a specimen of this species said to have been taken at 
Toronto, Ont. (J. H. Fleming.) This-is the characteristic black- 
bird of the whole region along the International Boundary from 
Pembina to the Rocky mountains. (Cowes.) An abundant sum- 
mer resident in most districts; this species gathers in large flocks 
and commits great depredations in wheat and oat fields in the 
‘autumn. (E. T. Seton.) Common in the Red river valley be- 
tween Winnipeg and West Selkirk, June 14th, 1901. (Preble.) 
Altogether the most abundant and regularly distributed blackbird in 
the west in the more open and scrub country. Noted everywhere 
in Manitoba and west to Edmonton, Alta. (Atkinson.) Apparently 
rather common at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan. 
