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northern parts of Asia. M. Nilsson, an ornithologist of 
Sweden, and the author of a Fauna of Scandinavia, says, 
these birds pass the summer in the arctic regions; they are 
seen on their passage in Scania in November, and return in 
the sprmg. The remarks of Dr. Richardson are as follows: 
“This elegant bird has only lately been detected in America, 
having been discovered in the spring of 1826, near the 
sources of the Athabasea, or Elk River, by Mr. Drummond, 
and by myself the same season, at Great Bear Lake, in 
latitude 65°. In its autumn migration southwards, this 
bird must cross the territory of the United States, if it 
does not actually winter within it; but I have not heard of 
its having been hitherto seen in America to the southward 
of the fifty-fifth parallel of latitude. The mountaimous 
_ nature of the country skirting the Northern pacific Ocean 
bemg congenial to the habits of this species, it is probably 
more generally diffused in New Caledonia and Russian 
American territories, than to the eastward of the Rocky 
Mountain cham. It appears in flocks at Great Bear Lake 
about the 24th of May, when the spring thaw has exposed 
the berries of the alpine arbutus, marsh vaccinium, &c., 
that have been frozen and covered during winter. It stays 
only for a few days; and none of the Indians of that 
quarter, with whom I conversed, had seen its nest; but I 
have reason to believe that it retires in the breeding season to 
the rugged and secluded mountain-limestone districts, in the 
sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth parallels, when it feeds on 
the fruit of the common juniper, which abounds in these 
places.” In a note, Dr. Richardson adds, ‘‘ I observed a 
large flock, consisting of at least three or four hundred 
individuals, on the banks of the Saskatchewan, at Carlton 
House, early in May 1827. They alighted in a grove of 
poplars, settling all on one or two trees, and making a loud 
