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Sometimes rather common in autumn and winter at Aweme, Man. 

 (Criddle.) Found regularly among the large flocks of mixed redpolls 

 every winter in Manitoba generally. (Atkinson.) 



A migrant and winter visitant in Manitoba. Specimens were taken 

 at Carberry in the early winter from a flock of A. linaria. (E. T. 

 Seton.) Quite numerous in flocks of the common redpoll at Indian 

 Head, Sask., which were common from April ist to 20th, 1892. 

 (Spreadborough.) Carlton House, on the South Saskatchewan, 

 November to March. (Blakiston vide Ridgway.) North' to Lapierre 

 House on the Mackenzie river; common. {Ross.) I carefully 

 examined all flocks of redpolls in the winter of 1897-98 in the Cari- 

 boo district, B.C., and only secured one specimen that showed any 

 approach to exilipes. (Brooks.) This is the prevailing species of 

 the genus throughout northern Alaska, where it occurs in great 

 numbers. It is indistinguishable from the common redpoll except 

 for the differences in colouration and is constantly associated with 

 them. (Nelson.) This species is a common bird throughout the 

 entire territory of Alaska. (Turner.) This species is not common 

 at Point Barrow, and only of irregular occurrence. We only ctbtained 

 one nest and saw very few birds. (Murdoch.) The hoary redpoll 

 was a common resident throughout the region around Kotzebue 

 sound. Ou^of 112 skins taken, 104 were of this species. (Grinnell.) 

 Sixteen specimens taken at Point Barrow, Alaska, exhibit very 

 little variation. (Witmer Stone.) 1 secured two young from a flock 

 about fifteen miles above Circle City, Alaska, August 13th, 1899; 

 and Osgood one, on the xgth, from a flock at Circle City; rather 

 common in small flocks at St. Michael in September. (Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — ^The hoary redpoll was a common resident 

 throughout the region under consideration. At Cape Blossom 

 during July, 1898, they were mainly in pairs, though small com- 

 panies of from four to eight were occasionally seen. They frequented 

 the dwarf willow and alder patches, especially among the hills back 

 from the coast. Two nests were found on the 20th of July. They 

 were each built in the crotches of low bushes about two feet from 

 the ground, and were only one hundred feet apart on a slope sparsely 

 covered with small bushes. The nests were composed of dried 

 mildewed grasses externally, with a thick lining of cottony down 

 from the seed-cases of a kind of grass, and a few feathers. One of 



