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southern trip about the middle of September. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 

 Regular spring migrant at Toronto, Ont. (/. H. Fleming.) Regular 

 but rare migrant at London, Ont.; recorded sometimes as fairly 

 common in a few localities. {W. E. Saunders.) 



Observed in large numbers during the latter part of September 

 and beginning of October along the Mouse (Souris) river. {Coues.) 

 A rare spring and winter migrant at Carberry, Man. Nesting ia the 

 vicinity of Fort Resolution, Mackenzie. {E. T. Seton.) Rare at 

 Aweme, Man., probably breeds. (Criddle.) A rare and tolerably com- 

 mon summer resident in Manitoba but not noted breeding. {A tkinson.) 

 Rather common, July 1 3th to 1 6th, at York Factory, where three speci- 

 mens were collected. {E. A. Preble.) Only noted as a spring migrant 

 at Indian Head, Sask. ; they were first seen May 13th, 1892, and left 

 again in a few days ; only a few were observed at Old Wives creek 

 in 1895, but none were seen on the prairie at any place; they were 

 not rare and breeding in the bushes at Banff in 1891 ; first observed 

 at Edmonton, Alta. on May 5th, 1897, on June ist found a nest on 

 the ground in a bunch of grass, nest made of dried grass, eggs five, 

 quite fresh; common in the foothills from Calgary southward to 

 Crow Nest pass; found a nest with four fresh eggs, June 28th, nest 

 same as first; abundant from Edmonton to Lesser Slave lake and 

 Peace River Landing, lat. 56° 15,' 1903; seen everjrwhere between 

 Edmonton and Yellowhead pass in low bushes in June, 1898; quite 

 common at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and on the Columbia 

 south to Robson, where they were seen again in 1902, they were 

 breeding in low thickets; common at Penticton, south of Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C., on April 28th, 1903. (Spreadborough.) North to 

 Fort Simpson, on Mackenzie river; not rare. {Ross.) Common 

 during the autumnal migrations. (Streator.) Regular summer 

 visitor. (Lord.) Found east and west of Coast range. (Fannin.) 



At Nulato this bird is rare, but thence it becomes more and more 

 numerous towards the east and at Fort Yukon it is considerably 

 more abundant. (Nelson.) Mr. Rhoads in The Auk, Vol. X, p. 21, 

 says that he cannot see any difference between specimens of this 

 species taken on Vancouver island and those taken in Pennsyl- 

 vania, and on this account he rejects striata, which is based on 

 Vancouver island specimens. (Macoun.) Two or three pairs 

 breed in the grassy margin of the pond back of Sitka, Alaska. 



