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resident in New Brunswick. {^CJiamberlain.) Tolerably common 

 summer resident in York Co., N. B. {W.H.Moore.) Common 

 summer resident in Quebec, taken at Beauport. {Dionne.) Ob- 

 served at Gaspe Bay and Mingan Harbour, Que., rather common 

 in the latter locality. {Brewster.) Specimens obtained at York 

 Factory and at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, where it is rare. {Dr. 

 R. B^ll.) Common at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec ; breeds, 

 {J. M. Macoun.) Rather common on Prince Edward Island at 

 Brackley Beach, i888. Rather common on Cape Breton Island, 

 July, 1898. {Macoun.) Summer resident in the Magdalen 

 Islands. {Bishop.) Very common in the valley of the Resti- 

 gouche, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) Abundant summer resident at 

 Ottawa; breeds. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) This bird is gen- 

 erally distributed throughout Ontario, arriving in April and leav- 

 ing in September. {Mcllw^aith^ This species is abundant in 

 Algonquin Park ; there were five nests in a railway ballast pit at 

 C^che Lake in 1900. {Spreadborough!) Breeds near Toronto. 

 Ont. ; abundant everywhere in the Muskoka and Parry Sound 

 districts. {J. H. Fleming^ During the winter of 1894, three of 

 these birds spent the winter near a secluded stream a few miles 

 north of Toronto, Ont. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) Common on every 

 stream and river. They are observed so late in the fall and so 

 early in spring that they must winter near London. A few have 

 been observed in the winter at London and more often nearer 

 Lake Erie. (W. E. Saunders.) A common summer resident along 

 all fish-frequented streams and lakes in Manitoba. It arrives 

 towards the last of April and leaves when the winter sets in. 

 I have never seen this species in the vicinity of any of the drain- 

 age lakes, although they abound in AmdlysiomcB, insects, etc., to 

 the exclusion, however, of fish. {Thompson-Seton.) This species 

 is rnore widely distributed or more easily seen than any other 

 species noted between Manitoba and the Pacific Coast. In 1892, 

 1894 and 1895 't was found on all streams visited in the prairie 

 region ; common on the Saskatchewan and its northern tributaries 

 in 1896; on all streams south of Calgary in 1897; abundant at 

 Batiff in 189I ; in 1890 it was found on the Columbia between 

 Revelstoke and the International Boundary ; in 1889 from 

 Revelstoke to the coast at the mouth of the Fraser river ; in 

 i'893 it was found common everywhere by streams on Vancouver 

 Island ; in 1898 Mr. Spreadborough found it abundant on the 

 up{>er Athabasca ; in igai rather rare on Chilliwack river and 



