lO DwiGHT, Summer Birda of Prince Edivaid hlauil. \\m\. 



Empidonax flaviventris. Ykllow-iusli.if.d Flvcatciikk. — P'oiiru) 

 only ;U Tifjnisli and in small numbers. The drvTiess of the other localities 

 visited would partly account foi' its absence. The scarcity of this and the 

 followiiifj species rather surprised me. 



Empidonax pusillus traillii. Traill's Flycatcher. — A few at 

 Tignish in their favorite haunts, the alders, were the only ones met with. 

 It is likely t!iat both this species and the pieccding are in some other 

 localities more abuiulant than my observations uould indicate 



Empidonax minimus. Licast Flycatciikr. — A cheerful series of 

 'clie-b^cs' greeted me one morning at Souris. It is really easier to distin- 

 guish this bird from traillii \i\ its notes than by the bird in hand, but the 

 bird in hand is, unfortunately perhaps, a scientific neces.sity. No others 

 were seen. 



Cyanocitta cristata. IJluk Jay.— Not abu-vlant, and only occasionally 

 met with. No Perisoreus canadensis were c en heard of. 



rCorvuscorax principalis Raven. — I was told that a jiair of Ravens had 

 formerly nested for several years on the face of the clilVat ICast Point, and 

 while I think my informant could have made no mistake as to the species, 

 1 hesitate about admitting a bird to the list on hearsay only.] 



Corvus americanus. American Crow.— Nowhere, in the breeding 

 season, have I ever seen Crows so abuniiant and so tame. Tliey were 

 never out of sight or hearing, and they sit on the fences and 'caw' at vou 

 derisively as you ride by. Of course their numbers were augmenteil by 

 young birds, and early in July they were beginning to flock, as indicated 

 bv a gathering of nearly a hundred seen July 4. AtTignish there was a 

 roost in a large patch of woods, whither towards simdown aiul later 

 Cro.vs were seen coiiverging from all directions. In the woods a terrible 

 noise was kept up until it grew dark. The Crows do not molest the 

 farmer to any great extent, as he raises no corn, but I was told thev kill 

 voung chickens and pick out the eyes of new-born ' inbs. They daily 

 congregate for a feast in the fiehls where the refuse "i the many lobster- 

 canning establishments is used as a fertilizer. 



Scolecophagus carolinus. Rusty nLAiKuiRi). — A flock of twenty or 

 more, largely young birds, near East Point July 7, were the only ones 

 seen. I had heard of their occurence elsewhere. 



QuiscaluE quiscula seneus. Bro.vzrd Gracki.e. — A pair of these 

 birds in Prof. Earle's possession were the only ories he had ever seen, very 

 likely stragglers frotn the mainland. 



Carpodacus purpureus. Purple Finch. — Sparingly distributed, a 

 restless and roving species, and seen singly or in pairs. 



Loxia curvirostra minor, .\merican Crossbill. — Perhaps more 

 abundant than the following species, but the flocks are so often made up 

 of birds of both species, and so much more frequently seen or heard flying 

 overhead rather than allowing a closer examination, that it is difficult to 

 estimate their numbers. At any rate both were occasionally seen in 

 flocks of old and young, sometimfes one species predominating (usuallv 

 the flock was almost entirely made up of one species), sometimes the 



