province, noting all the migrants, obtaining skins and recording 

 the summer birds of that district. In the spring of 1893 he 

 iiaccompanied the writer to Vancouver Island, and there also large 

 ■Collections were made. In March, 1894, he examined the district 

 around Medicine Hat and eastward to Crane Lake in western 

 Assiniboia and remained in the field until July. The summer of 

 1895 was spent by him on the prairie south of the line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, where the summer birds of the prairie 

 region were noted and records of their breeding habits made. In 

 all these years Mr. Spreadborough worked under the direction of 

 the writer. The summer of 1896 Mr. Spreadborough spent in 

 Labrador and the summers of 1897 and 1898 in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains between the Crow's Nest Pass and the Yellow Head Pass 

 in Lat. 54°. 



The notices of Greenland birds are derived principally from 

 the Arctic Manual, published in London in 1875. In this work all 

 records pertaining to Greenland birds were brought up to the 

 date of publication. In 1898 Herluf Winge published in Copen- 

 hagen a conspectus of the bird fauna of Greenland, and his obser- 

 vations have been added to those above mentioned. Many years 

 since Mr. Henry Reeks published a catalogue of the birds of 

 Newfoundland, and this has been used for that island. Mr. 

 Andrew Downs, of Halifax. Nova Scotia, is the chief authority 

 for that province. Mr. Montague Chamberlain, of St. John, is 

 quoted for New Brunswick. For Quebec all available material 

 has been employed, besides the works of Mr. C. E. Dionne and 

 Mr. Ernest D. Wintle. In addition to the Birds of Ontario, 

 mentioned above, local lists, both manuscript and printed, of the 

 birds of certain parts of Ontario have been freely used. For the 

 province of Manitoba, Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson's work is 

 quoted, supplemented by observations made by the writer and 

 by Dr. Coues on the southern boundary of the province. 



From the western part of Manitoba to the Pacific I have 

 drawn on my own observations and those of Mr, John Fannin, 

 supplemented by a manuscript list of Eraser River birds by Mr. 

 Allan Brooks. For Alaska, works by Elliott, Nelson, Turner 

 and Murdoch have been available and are frequently cited in the 

 following pages. In regard to northern stations, the work of Mr. 

 Roderick Macfarlane takes first place, and the value of his collec- 



