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April 20th, 1904. (/. Boutelier.) A common summer resident in 

 New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) A rare summer resident at Scotch 

 Lake, York county, but abundant at Grand lake and at Bindon, 

 Carleton county, N.B. {W. H. Moore.) Taken at Charlesbourg; 

 rare summer resident in Quebec. (Dionne.) An abundant resident 

 in the district of Montreal; observed from April 12th to November 

 ist. (Wintle.) Common in Argenteuil county, Que. ; very common 

 in the marshes along the Ottawa river, Ont. {D' Urban.) A com- 

 mon resident in the district around Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) Very common everywhere I have been in Ontario. (Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Abundant summer resident at Toronto, Ont. ; com- 

 mon in marshy districts along large rivers in the districts of Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka. (/. H. Fleming.) A few pairs were nesting 

 in the marshes along the Madawaska river below Cdche lake, also a 

 few at Source lake, Algonquin park, June, 1900. (Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — Builds in bushes and low trees around Ottawa, 

 Ont. Its nest is composed of coarse fibrous material, strips of 

 rushes and marsh grass; lined with fine grass. Eggs four to six. 

 Pale blue dotted, blotched and scrawled with blackish-brown. 

 (G. R. White.) 



498. Thick-billed Redwing. 



Agelaius phoeniceus fortis. Ridgw. 1901. 



Breeding range Mackenzie river, Athabaska and other interior 

 districts of British America. During migrations, the great plains 

 from eastern base of Rocky mountains to Manitoba. {Ridgway.) 

 This species was only noticed at Pembina and was not nearly so 

 common as Brewer blackbird nor the yellow-headed one. The 

 country was not suited for them. (Coues.) An abundant summer 

 resident in Manitoba, frequenting the borders of willow-edged 

 swamps. Slave River delta. (E. T. Seton.) Common near 

 Aweme, Man., nesting in marshes near water. (Criddle.) Abund- 

 ant everjnvhere from Portage la Prairie, Man., west to Edmonton 

 along the G.T.P. Ry. (Atkinson.) Very common around sloughs 

 and along creeks in Saskatchewan nesting in the flags and long 

 grasses. (A. C. Bent.) This is an abundant species in the bushy 

 part of the prairie region ; it is always found where there is a marsh 

 bordered by willows in which it prefers to breed. It was common 



