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Portef.) Resident in southern portions of Labrador ; probably 

 does not occur north of the " height of land." {Packard.) Ob- 

 served all along the Moose River to Moose Factory, James Bay. 

 None seen further north in Labrador in 1896. {Sprerndborougk.) 

 York Factory, Hudson Bay. {Dr. R. Bell.) Taken at Fort 

 "Churchill, Hudson Bay : {Clarke.) 



Common resident in Nova Scotia. {Downs!) Fairly common 

 throughout the year at Wolfville, King's- Co., N.S. {H. Tufts.) 

 Common resident at Sydr>ey, Cape Breton Island, N.S. {C. R. 

 Harte) Summer resident Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton 

 Island. {Macoun.) Abundant throughout the year in New Bruns- 

 wick. {Chamberlain!) Permanent resident; breeds; rather coriimon, 

 York Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore.) Uncommon in the valley of the- 

 Restigouche, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) One specimen seen on 

 Grindstone Island, Magdalen Islands. {Bishop.) Taken at 

 Beauport ; a common resident in Quebec. {Dionne.) A transient 

 and scarce visitant in the vicinity of Montreal. I do not think 

 this species breeds in the vicinity of Montreal, as I have only 

 seen it in the months of October and November. {Wintle.) A 

 common resident around Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalists Vol. V.) 

 A resident, though not an abundant species throughout Ontario; 

 more abundant at the north. {Mcllwraith.) It is a question 

 which form the Ontario bird is but I believe it to be the northern 

 form ; it breeds abundantly in the district of Parry Sound often 

 choosing a dead pine to nest in ; it is very fond -of districts where 

 the trees have been killed by fire ; the young are hatched early 

 in June. (/. H. Fleming.) Fairly abundant at Whitney on the 

 Parry Sound Railway during December, i8g8. {J. Hughes- 

 Samuel.) Comrnon and breeding in the Algonquin Park, Ontario^ 

 July, 1900. {Spreadborough.) 



A common resident in Manitoba in the poplar forest. {Thomp^ 

 son-Seten.) This is a rare species on the margin of the prairie as 

 only two were seen at Indian Head in the spring of 1892, 

 and one at Medicine Hat in 1894. A tolerably common resi- 

 dent at Edmonton, Alta.; not uncommon in the foothills from 

 Calgary south to Crow's Nest Pass in the Rocky Mountains. 

 Common at Agassiz and Burrard Inlet, B. C, in May, 1889. 

 {Spreadborough) Common at- Grand Rapids on the Saskatchewan. 

 {Nutting.) This species exists as far north as Lat. 63°. It 

 remains all the year in the Northwest Territories and is the 



