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the railway tracks, where they doubtlessly are at- 

 tracted by the locality being sheltered on the north- 

 east side by a high bank bounding the highlands 

 above, and after a thaw the corn-stubble fields there 

 are sufficiently exposed for them to feed on the 

 scattered grain left in the autumn. I saw a flock 

 of about fifty crows December 17, 1882, feeding 

 around the tops of a patch of corn, just protruding 

 above the deep snow, which had been left standing 

 in a sheltered field at Cote des Nieges. The bulk 

 of the crows, which are migrants, begin to arrive 

 here about the 1st of March and commence build- 

 ing nests in April. One nest examined April 30, 

 1882, contained six eggs, incubated, and another 

 one, May 24, 1882, contained younglings, and a 

 nest, May 11, 1889, had four eggs, incubated. They 

 breed in Mount Royal Park and all over the Island 

 of Montreal. The bulk of the crows in this district 

 migrate south before the month of December. 



Family Icteridce. Blackbirds, Orioles, etc 



Subfamily Icterince. 

 Genus Dolichonyx. Swainson. 



157. Bobolink. D. oryzivorus. (Linn.) 



" Summer Resident," abundant. Breeds in the 

 fields on the Island of Montreal, and probably in 

 Mount Royal Park, in the field near the Park 



