CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 



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Moderately common winter resident around Ottawa. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) This bird is met with in eastern Ontario in fall 

 and winter; it is not common. It seems to prefer the vicinity of 

 towns and villages and preys on the English sparrow. I have seen 

 it as early as October and late in April. The nest I have only met 

 with once and that was in the province of Quebec. {Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) Regular winter resident at Toronto, Ont. ; I took a nest 

 May 28th, 1887, but this is the only record. A not uncommon 

 winter resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts; I have met 

 them at Sand lake, in October, 1899. (/■ ti. Fleming.) A few 

 reach, us every fall at Toronto and spend the winter with us, paying 

 great attention to Passer domesticus. On the 29th October, 1896, I 

 watched one for upwards of thirty minutes chasing a bat which had 

 been driven from an old shed; the actions of the shrike were most 

 quaint, as each time he approached the bat he seemed to hesitate to 

 seize it — even granted that he could do so; at last the shrike con- 

 cluded to leave the uncanny object alone and to seek some more 

 congenial repast. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) An occasional winter visitant 

 at Penetanguishene, Ont. {A. F. Young.) 



Two specimens were taken at Fort Churchill, where the birds were 

 rather common, July 23rd to 30th, 1901, and one was taken and 

 another noted near Painted Stone portage on September 14th. {E. 

 A. Preble.) Taken at York Factory, Hudson bay. {Dr. R. Bell.) 

 Taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson h&y. {Clarke.) 



A tolerably common spring and fall visitant in Manitoba ; saw two 

 at Fort Reliance, September 15th, 1907. {E. T. Seton.) Fairly 

 common in winter at Aweme, Man. {Criddle.) A regular winter 

 resident in Manitoba. {Atkinson.) Very common and regular 

 summer visitor, breeding throughout the district around Prince 

 Albert, Sask. {Covbeaux.) An individual seen at Fort McMurray, 

 lat. 56° 40'. (7. M. Macoun.) This is by no means an uncommon 

 bird in the wooded districts of the Northwest Territories up to lat. 

 60°, if not further north. It is most frequent on the banks of the 

 Saskatchewan, where it is usually seen on the borders of the plains, 

 or in the vicinity of a lake, perched upon a tree. {Richardson.) 

 North to Fort Good Hope, on the Mackenzie river ; not rare. {Ross.) 

 A nest of this species, containing six eggs, was obtained at Fort 

 Anderson on nth June, 1863, afterwards another nest was obtained 



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