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Common on the Missinabi and Moose rivers, breeding on both 

 rivers. {Spreadborough.) Common in Muskoka and Parry Sound 

 districts. Regular winter resident at Toronto, Ont. {J.H.Fleming.) 

 A flock of young seen on the west coast of the Bruce peninsula in 

 June, 1889, and old birds are often seen there in summer. {W. 

 Saunders) 



Breeds in the northern part of Manitoba and northwesterly to 

 the Barren Grounds. (Macfarlane) Breeding at Jasper House, 

 Alta., 1889; a few seen along streams in the Peace River district; 

 noted at Elk river and Kettle river, B.C. and breeding at Osoyoos 

 lake, B.C. {Spreadborougk.) Though Nelson and Turner say that 

 it is only a visitor in Alaska, Grinnell found an adult female in 

 Prince William sound and Bishop a pair breeding on Lake Tagish 

 and adults, usually in pairs, at several other places. Both Brooks 

 and Fannin report it breeding in British Columbia and wintering 

 abundantly on Okanagan lake. Found breeding atCanmoreand 

 Banff, Rocky Mountains, May, 1891. 



Breeding Notes. —Mr. A. P. Low found it breeding on the 

 shores of small lakes in Labrador; eggs were taken with the bird 

 from under small spruces on the upper part of the Hamilton river, 

 in the summer of 1896. 



Fairly common in Alberta, downy young killed June 24th, 1896, 

 at the forks of Blindman river and the Red Deer. {Dippie.) 

 Breeding on the streams and larger lakes but absent from the 

 smaller lakes that are devoid of fish in the Cariboo district, B.C- 

 {Brooks.) 



This is a summer resident at Norway lake, Renfrew co., Ont., 

 although I never obtained the nest; I have seen the bird, however, 

 fly into a cavity in a pine tree about forty feet from the ground. 

 I have learned that a pair breed every year in the bole of a decayed 

 pine tree on an island in Bolis lake, Frontenac co., Ont. I have 

 reason to believe that this species prefers, in Ontario, inland lakes 

 bordered by woods and not large expanses of open water. {Rev. 

 C.J. Young.) A pair of mergansers was breeding on a small rocky 

 island in Lake Tagish at the entrance to Windy Arm. The nest 

 was found by Osgood in a crevice in the cliffs about 15 feet above 

 the water. It was made of down, and contained seven eggs. {Bishop.) 

 In the Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XVII, p. 153, Mr. Walter Raine 



