742 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
up a dead bird by the roadside near Lansdowne about the end of 
April, 1898. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Common migrant at Toronto, 
Ont. A common summer resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka 
districts. (J. H. Fleming.) Abundant everywhere in Algonquin 
park, Ont. in the summer of 1900; common at Missinabi, Ont., 
the first week in June, 1904. (Spreadborough.) A passing migrant 
at Guelph, Ont. (A.B. Klugh.) The song of this species was heard 
at Bull Head point, Lake Winnipeg, on the morning of June 16th. 
The birds were rather common at Norway House, and were seen or 
heard daily between there and Oxford House. They were common 
at Oxford House and a specimen was taken at that point; while 
descending the streams between Oxford House and York Factory 
we found them abundant; every wooded islet in the lakes seemed to 
be the home of a pair, and wherever we camped we heard their 
songs, which began soon after midnight; a nest found in a bush 
overhanging Jack river, between Knee and Swampy lakes, July 6th, 
contained eggs on the point of hatching. At York Factory, where 
we took two specimens, the species was apparently less abundant, 
and beyond that point we did not meet with it. Baird recorded a 
specimen collected at Moose Factory in July, 1860, by Drexler. 
(E. A. Preble.) Abundant and breeding in wooded districts 
of Manitoba generally and noted in 1906, as far west as 
Battleford, Alta. (Atkinson.) After giving a number of references 
regarding the occurrence of this bird in Manitoba, Mr. E. T. Seton 
says he is disposed to question them all. Yet he speaks of 
its occurrence at Carberry,. Manitoba, and apparently breeding; 
while not giving an opinion I may say that both this form and the 
gray-cheeked thrush were taken in the spring of 1892 at Indian Head, 
Sask., first seen on May 16th, 1894, at Medicine Hat, Sask.; the 
next day they were abundant and in a day or two there were only 
a few stragglers left, a few remained to breed as they were seen 
later; a few were observed at Old Wives creek, Sask., in the latter 
part of May, 1895; abundant from the mouth of Lesser Slave river 
to Peace River Landing, June ,1903; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., 
May 8th, 1897; afterwards it became common and nests and eggs 
were taken; common from Edmonton to the Athabaska pass, in 
June, 1898; common in the foothills south of Calgary to Crow Nest 
pass; this was a common summer resident at Banff, Rocky moun- 
tains, in 1891; a few seen at Deer Park, Columbia river, and breeding 
in numbers at Robson late in June, 1890; first seen at Elko, B.C., 
May 14th, 1904; common by the 21st. (Spreadborough.) 
