CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 581 
mon summer resident at Montreal. A small colony of these birds. 
used to breed in the bank above the high level reservoir in Mount 
Royal park, but they deserted the place in 1885; another large 
colony used to breed in the sand pits at Hochelaga, where I have 
observed them burrowing, May 12th. (Wzuntle.) 
A common and abundant summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) Very common in eastern Ontario. (Rev. C. 
J. Young.) Regular summer resident at Toronto, Ont.; an abun- 
dant summer resident in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. 
(J. H. Fleming.) Not common in Algonquin park, Ont. A few 
seen breeding in a bank at Whitefish lake; a number seen nesting 
in the banks of the river above Moose Factory in 1904, last seen on 
James bay that year, Aug. 12. (Spreadborough.) Abundant where 
suitable breeding places are, even sometimes in thousands in the 
cliffs along Lake Erie. These birds always make an oval hole for 
nesting about 1} inches by 21, and from one to three feet in length. 
(W. E. Saunders.) <A fairly common summer resident at Guelph, 
Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) An abundant summer resident at Penetan- 
guishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) 
A small colony was found on Red river, a few miles below Win- 
nipeg, June 14th, 1901, and a large one in a high clay bank on the 
shore of Oxford lake, near Oxford House, June 30th. Several 
colonies were seen on Hayes river, a few miles above York Factory. 
(E. A. Preble.) Very abundant at Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) 
Breeds abundantly from Manitoba west to Edmonton. (Atkinson.) 
This species was found everywhere along the 49th parallel where 
there were cut banks suitable for breeding sites for the digging of 
holes in which the nests are constructed. (Couwes.) A somewhat 
common stmmer resident in Manitoba. They excavate their nests 
in the banks of the Assiniboine and Qu’Appelle, and breed in colonies. 
(E. T. Seton.) First individual was seen at Indian Head, Sask. ; 
May 30th, 1892, after this time they became common; they must 
breed near here as they were seen in numbers up to June 27th when I 
left; very common on Skull creek, near Crane lake, Sask.; they 
reached there June rith, and began breeding in the cut banks of 
the creek; dug out two nests, but only obtained three eggs, one 
in one nest and two in the other; one was seen later in the month 
at the east end of the Cypress hills; in 1895 this species was first. 
