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Several seen near Sea falls and on the lower Echimamish, June 24th, 

 1901 ; common down to Oxford House, but none seen below. (Preble.) 



A common summer resident in the Ottawa district. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) A common summer resident, but the flocks 

 that collect in the fall are not so large as formerly, I notice. I saw 

 none on the Magdalen islands; arrived on Wolfe island, April 2nd, 

 1 901. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Abundant summer resident at To- 

 ronto, Ont. ; a common breeding species in the Muskoka and Parry 

 Sound districts; at Kearney they nest in old woodpecker's holes- 

 (/. H. Fleming.) Abundant everywhere along the shores of the 

 lakes in Algonquin park; young ones able to fly by June i8th, 1900. 

 Common at Missinabi, Ont., June ist, 1904, breeding. (Spread- 

 borough.) 



Abundant at Pembina where it was breeding in June in the 

 hollows of trees. Occurred sparingly along the Mouse (Souris) 

 river in the fall, and during 1874 was traced westward to the Rock^^ 

 mountains. (Coues.) An abundant summer resident in Manitoba 

 wherever there is wood and water ; it apparently extends as a strag- 

 gler northward to Hudson bay. (E. T. Seton.) Common at 

 Aweme, Man., nesting in willow thickets near the edge of 

 marshes. (Criddle.) A common summer resident in the wooded 

 parts of Saskatchewan ; at Indian Head, where nests were taken 

 June 20th, 1892, one nest was on the side of a large poplar tree, 

 in a bunch of small twigs that grew out froin the side of it about 10 

 feet from the ground ; also at Medicine Hat, and nesting in Cypress 

 hills in 1894; in May, 1895, nests were taken in holes in Acer Negundo 

 near the mouth of Old Wives creek, eastern Saskatchewan ; first seen 

 at Edmonton, Alta., April 24th, 1897, quite common by May 31st; 

 found a nest in a balsam stub ; nest composed of weeds lined with 

 grass; incubation had been going on for about a week; next found 

 a nest with young lately hatched. One pair seen at Lesser Slave 

 lake and one bird at Dunvegan, Alta. (Spreadborough.) An abundant 

 species in Manitoba and noted everywhere in 1906 along the G.T.P. 

 Ry. west to Edmonton, Alta. (Atkinson.) Uncommon in the 

 timber on Maple and Skull creeks, Sask. (A. C. Bent.) Very 

 abundant at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan. (Nutting.) 

 Breeding abundantly between the forks of the Saskatchewan. 

 (Coubeaux.) Breeding abundantly from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to 



