CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 475 
with water and the birds deserted it. (W.H. Moore.) Restigouche 
valley, N.B.; always near settlements. (Brittain & Cox.) Com- 
mon at Gaspé, Que., but nowhere else on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
(Brewster.) Taken at Beauport; a summer resident in eastern 
Quebec. (Dionne.) An abundant summer resident at Montreal; 
breeds in Mount Royal park; nests found containing fresh eggs 
from July 22nd to August 8th; observed at Montreal from April 
7th to November 18th; have been seen as late as December 11th, 
1890. (Wuntle.) « 
Abundant summer resident at Ottawa, Ont. It occasionally 
winters here in large flocks as it did in 1888-9. (Ottawa Naturalist, 
Vol. V.) A very common summer resident in Ontario. I have 
seen flocks of this bird in January at Calabogie lake, Renfrew county, 
and occasionally at Lansdowne on the St. Lawrence. It is a very 
late breeder, seldom nesting until the middle of June; I have seen 
fresh eggs in August. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Resident at Toronto, 
Ont.; abundant in summer and sometimes in winter. An abun- 
dant summer resident in both the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. 
(J. H. Fleming.) Common around the buildings at Cache lake, 
Algonquin park, Ont., June, 1900. (Spreadborough.) Common 
everywhere, and is to be found every winter in varying numbers 
in the cedar swamps about London, Ont.; a common summer 
resident. In the spring, erratic flocks are seen now here now there; 
but they begin to seek their summer quarters, to sing and to be 
regularly observed about April 28th, on an average of fourteen 
years. (W. E. Saunders.) A common resident; most abundant 
in summer around Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) An abundant 
summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont.; breeds. (A. F. Young.) 
This familiar bird was noted only at Pembina on the borders of 
Manitoba. (Coues.) A common summer resident in Manitoba. 
I have not noted this bird in Manitoba before the end of May. In 
this country it finds neither thistles nor orchards, so it feeds largely 
on the seed of Rudbeckia hirta and Gaillardia aristata, and nests 
in the low poplars and oaks on the edges of the heavier timber. 
(E. T. Seton.) Common at Aweme, Man., nesting late in July. 
(Criddle.) An abundant summer resident in Manitoba and noted 
breeding at almost every point along the G. T. P. railway west 
to Edmonton in 1906. (Atkinson.) Quite common in _ the 
