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Some specimens shot at Cole Harbor, Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Ov ours 

 in winter at Grand Manan, New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Taicen 

 at Beauport; a winter resident in eastern Quebec. (Dionne.) A 

 rare winter visitant at Montreal. This species is occasionally 

 found mixing with the snowflake. (Wintle.) 



This species was first recorded at Otta.wa, Ont., in the spring of 

 1890, when in company with horned larks and snowflakes. It 

 remained in the flocks till May 25th. It was present again in the 

 fall from October 3rd to November i8th. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 

 V.) Irregular winter resident at Toronto, Ont. The only record 

 I am aware of is that of a flock reported by Mr. Wm. Melville at 

 Gravenhurst, Ont., on April 27th, 1890. (/. H. Fleming.) In April, 

 1897, I met with a small flock of these birds at Toronto, and took 

 two or three males in grand plumage; in winter they more 

 commonly appear in company with the snowflakes. (/. Hughes- 

 Samuel.) Sometimes quite common in the spring migrations along 

 Lake St. Clair, but very rare near London ; only three or four speci- 

 mens all told have been observed. (W. E. Saunders.) 



One specimen shot on Mouse river (Souris), Dak., October ist, 

 1873. The first of the southern migration. (Coues.) Very abun- 

 dant spring and fall migrant wherever there is prairie or cleared 

 country. They come in countless numbers about the middle of 

 May and remain to the end of the month. After this time they 

 go northwest to breed and return again about the last week in 

 September. They remain about two weeks in the stubble fields 

 and then pass 'southward. (E. T. Seton.) Abundant migrant 

 at Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) Very abundant at Indian Head, 

 Sask., in the spring and fall migrations; last of them seen at 

 the end of May, 1892; on April asth, 1894, a small flock was 

 seen at Crane lake, Sask. ; abundant as a migrant at Edmonton, 

 Alta., from April 28th to May 5th, 1897. (Spreadborough.) In 

 the year 1827 it appeared on the plains of the Saskatchewan at 

 Carlton House about the middle of May and remained for about 

 ten days. They came to Cumberland House about the same time 

 and remained in the furrows of a newly ploughed field. In the 

 preceding year they were seen, though in smaller flocks, at Fort 

 Franklin, lat. 65^°, in the beginning of May; the crops of those 

 killed were filled with the seeds of Arctostaphylos alpina. (Richard- 



