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and two were shot at the latter place by myself, one, September 

 loth, 1886, and the other one September ist, 1888, both of which 

 are now in my collection of bird's skins. Mr. C. W. Johnson, of 

 Lachine, says he shot fifteen wild pigeons in the woods, four 

 miles north of that place on the 9th December, 1888. The speci- 

 mens I shot appear to be a female and young male bird. I saw 

 a female or immature passenger pjgeon in a tree on Mount 

 Royal Park, June 4th, 1891. (JVintle.) A summer resident ; 

 breeds. {Ott. Nat.) A few straggling pairs are still seen in 

 southern Ontario where they probably breed, but the large 

 annual migrations have entirely ceased. {Mcllwraith.) Breed- 

 ing in an aspen grove at North-west Angle, Lake of the Woods, 

 Man., 1873. {G. M. Dawson.) 



This celebrated pigeon arrives in the Northwest Territories in 

 the latter end of May, and departs in October. It annually reaches 

 the 62nd parallel in the warmer central districts, but reaches the 

 58th parallel on the shores of Hudson Bay in fine summers only. 

 (^Richardson.) North, on the Mackenzie, at Fort Norman ; not 

 common. (Ross.) Probably now extinct in British Columbia. 

 {Fannin.) 



Our latest notices of this species are taken from Mr. Seton- 

 Thompson's Birds of Manitoba. In this work he shows that it still 

 breeds in considerable numbers in northern Manitoba, as late as 

 1887, and as far as the writer is aware may do so still. While 

 making an exploration in northern Manitoba, in the summer of 

 1881, the writer had the good fortune to discover a small breeding 

 place of these birds on the 23rd June. It was on the left bank of 

 the Waterhen River, a deep stream which connects Lake Mani- 

 toba with Lake Winnipegoosis. There were less than a score of 

 nests which were variously placed, some of them less than ten 

 feet from the ground, and not in large trees. They were such 

 flimsy structures that the eggs were clearly seen through the 

 interstices from below, and one old bird was shot as she sat. Only 

 two eggs were taken. 



In the latter part of August and early in September of the 

 same year, on the Swan River, above Livingstone, and also on the 

 upper Assiniboine, we saw large flocks and as food was scarce we 

 shot large numbers for the pot. The low flats along the river 

 were covered with Cornus stolonifera, and on the ripe berries of 

 this shrub they were feeding. 



