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first record for Middlesex county, and which is made complete as 

 far as I am able to ascertain by a second at Kilworth by Mr. John 

 Thompson, November 17th, 1899, both these birds being males. 

 The Rev. C. L. Scott reports one shot near Aylmer, Elgin county, 

 about October, 1900. From Guflph one is reported by Mr. F. N. 

 Beattie as spending the winter of 1899 around his place. Other 

 reports come from Chatham and Rondeau, all of single specimens, 

 and apparently stragglers. (/. C. Keays in The Auk, Vol. XIX., 

 p. 204.) On February 14th, 1901, I procured a female cardinal 

 grosbeak at Penetanguishene, which I sent to Mr. Jas. H. Fleming, of 

 Toronto, about the same time a male was taken near Toronto. {A. 

 F. Young.) Between November 20th and 27th, 1902, a male was 

 seen about Rusholme road, Toronto ; and one was taken in Toronto, 

 in February, 1900. There are several local records but only two 

 have dates. (/. H. Fleming.) 



CCXXXIII. HABIA Reichenbach. 1850. 



595. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



Habia ludoviciana (Linn.) Stejn. 1848. 



Met with only once near Baddeck, Cape Breton island. (Dwight.) 

 Not common about Hahfax, but frequent in the vicinity of Truro 

 and Pictou, N.S. (Downs.) Uncommon summer resident in Nova 

 Scotia. (H. F. Tufts.) A very rare summer resident near St. John, 

 N.B. (Chamberlain.) Seen from May to November at Scotch 

 Lake, York county, N.B.; breeds here; a family was seen passing 

 south, August i6th, 1901. (W. H. Moore.) A common transient 

 visitor around Montreal, but evidently goes further north to breed ; 

 I have only observed it here in spring, so I infer it returns south 

 by another route. (Wintle.) Taken at Beauport; rather rare 

 around Quebec. (Dionne.) 



A moderately common summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) A few of these handsome birds remain to breed 

 in the county of Leeds, Ont. ; I have twice seen the nest ; once on the 

 9th Jime in a small beech tree; the eggs were just hatching; again 

 in the middle of June a nest with three eggs in a maple sapling about 

 ten feet from the ground. This bird appears to have become quite 

 common in recent years. A number breed about Sharbot lake. 



