CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 593 
Moderately common winter resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) This bird is met with in eastern Ontario in fall 
and winter; it is not common. It seems to prefer the vicinity of 
towns and villages and preys on the English sparrow. I have seen 
it as early as October and late in April. The nest I have only met 
with once and that was in the province of Quebec. (Rev. C. J. 
Young.) Regular winter resident at Toronto, Ont.; I took a nest 
May 28th, 1887, but this is the only record. A not uncommon 
winter resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts; I have met 
them at Sand lake, in October, 1899. (jJ. H. Fleming.) A few 
reach, us every fall at Toronto and spend the winter with us, paying 
great attention to Passer domesticus. On the 29th October, 1896, I 
watched one for upwards of thirty minutes chasing a bat which had 
been driven from an old shed; the actions of the shrike were most 
quaint, as each time he approached the bat he seemed to hesitate to 
seize it—even granted that he could do so; at last the shrike con- 
cluded to leave the uncanny object alone and to seek some more 
congenial repast. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) An occasional winter visitant 
at Penetanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) 
Two specimens were taken at Fort Churchill, where the birds were 
rather common, July 23rd to 30th, 1901, and one was taken and 
another noted near Painted Stone portage on September 14th. (E. 
A. Preble.) Taken at York Factory, Hudson bay. (Dr. R. Bell.) 
Taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson bay.(Clarke.) 
A tolerably common spring and fall visitant in Manitoba; saw two 
at Fort Reliance, September j15th, 1907... (E., T. Seton.) . Fairly 
common in winter at Aweme, Man. (Criddie.) A regular winter 
resident in Manitoba. (Atkinson.) Very common and regular 
summer visitor, breeding throughout the district around Prince 
Albert, Sask. (Coubeaux.) An individual seen at Fort McMurray, 
lat. 56° 40’. (J. M. Macoun.) This is by no means an uncommon 
bird in the wooded districts of the Northwest Territories up to lat. 
60°, if not further north. It is most frequent on the banks of the 
Saskatchewan, where it is usually seen on the borders of the plains, 
or in the vicinity of a lake, perched upon a tree. (Richardson.) 
North to Fort Good Hope, on the Mackenzie river; not rare. (Ross.) 
A nest of this species, containing six eggs, was obtained at Fort 
Anderson on 11th June, 1863, afterwards another nest was obtained 
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