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first record for Middlesex county, and which is made complete as 
far as I am able to ascertain by a second at Kilworth by Mr. John 
Thompson, November 17th, 1899, both these birds being males. 
The Rev. C. L. Scott reports one shot near Aylmer, Elgin county, 
about October, 1900. From Guelph one is reported by Mr. F. N. 
Beattie as spending the winter of 1899 around his place. Other 
reports come from Chatham and Rondeau, all of single specimens, 
and apparently stragglers. (J. C. Keays in The Auk, Vol. XIX., 
p. 204.) On February 14th, 1901, I procured a female cardinal 
grosbeak at Penetanguishene, which I sent to Mr. Jas. H. Fleming, of 
Toronto, about the same time a male was taken near Toronto. (A. 
F. Young.) Between November 20th and 27th, 1902, a male was 
seen about Rusholme road, Toronto; and one was taken in Toronto, 
in February, 1900. There are several local records but only two 
have dates. (J. H. Fleming.) 
CCXXXIII. HABIA ReEIcCHENBACH. 1850. 
595. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 
Habia ludoviciana (LINN.) STEJN. 1848. 
Met with only once near Baddeck, Cape Breton island. (Dwzght.) 
Not common about Halifax, but frequent in the vicinity of Truro 
and Pictou, N.S. (Downs.) Uncommon summer resident in Nova 
Scotia. (H.F. Tufts.) A very rare summer resident near St. John, 
N.B. (Chamberlain.) Seen from May to November at Scotch 
Lake, York county, N.B.; breeds here; a family was seen passing 
south, August 16th, 1901. (W. H. Moore.) A common transient 
visitor around Montreal, but evidently goes further north to breed; 
I have only observed it here in spring, so I infer it returns south 
by another route. (Wintle.) Taken at Beauport; rather rare 
around Quebec. (Dionne.) 
A moderately common summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) A few of these handsome birds remain to breed 
in the county of Leeds, Ont.; I have twice seen the nest; once on the 
oth June in a small beech tree; the eggs were just hatching; again 
in the middle of June a nest with three eggs in a maple sapling about 
ten feet from the ground. This bird appears to have become quite 
common in recent years. A number breed about Sharbot lake, 
