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autumn. (Spreadborough.) One specimen seen at Grand rapids 

 of the Athabaska. A few birds seen at north end of Methye portage, 

 lat. 56°. A few specimens between Methye lake and Isle k la Crosse. 

 {/. M. Macoun.) This well known bird is common on the banks of 

 the Saskatchewan, and ranges in summer to lat. 57", or 

 beyond it. (Richardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mac- 

 kenzie river; rare. (Ross.) Vancouver island and throughout 

 British Columbia. (Lord.) Abundant in the interior and decreas- 

 ing in numbers towards the coast. (Streator.) East and west of 

 the coast range ; more common on the mainland ; a summer resident. 

 (Fannin.) Common summer resident at Chilhwack. (Brooks.) 

 Abundant in the interior of British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 



Breeding Notes. — Common everywhere in Ontario. Its nest 

 is sometimes found as late as the middle of July with fresh eggs. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young.) I examined a nest of this bird June 30th, 

 1880, which was built in a thorn bush in Mount Royal park. It 

 contained younglings covered with white down. Observed from 

 May 4th to August 22nd. (Wintle.) Nest found on Duck island 

 near Ottawa, Ont., ist July, 1897, in a low bush, was composed of 

 fibrous roots and dried vegetable substances, lined with fine grass; 

 eggs four, creamy white, spotted and blotched with reddish and 

 dark brown spots. (G. R. White.) On July 21st, 1882, down by 

 the slough in a low bush, found a kingbird's ' nest. It was just 

 completed and contained no eggs yet. The king and his wife made 

 more fuss over my intrusion than most birds would have done had 

 the nest been full of young ones. Further on I found another nest 

 of this species. It was placed on top of a stub, about eight feet 

 high. The bird flew off. The nest was made of roots and fine 

 fibres and contained four eggs. One of them measured ij by f ; 

 it was creamy white, with a few clear spots of brown and lavender, 

 inclined to form a wreath about the large end; the others were 

 similar; all were quite fresh. (E. T. Seton.) The kingbird breeds 

 in the low scrubby oak trees which cover the sand-hills in western 

 Manitoba, building, like the shrike, a nest consisting largely of the 

 stalks of a species of Gnaphalium. After the young are able to fly 

 they often live around the settler's houses on the open prairie, but 

 about the end of August they all leave. (Christy.) Extremely 

 numerous at Pembina, where many nests were taken after the 

 middle of June, and traced westward as far as the survey progressed 

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