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Partridge Island, near Parrsboro. (C. H. Morrell.) A common 

 resident breeding in cliffs along the shore near Sydney, Cape 

 Breton Island, incubation begun April 22nd, igoi. {C. R. Harte.) 

 Common resident. King's Co., N.S. They often kill very young 

 lambs. {H. Tufts?) A rather rare resident in New Brunswick. 

 {Chamberlain^ Occasionally seen at Magaree, Cape Breton 

 Island, N.S., in July, 1898. {Macoun.) Breeds on the Magdalen 

 Islands. {Bishop.) Rather generally distributed in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence but nowhere abundant. {Brewster.) One specimen 

 shot at Lake Mistassini, in northern Quebec, May 30th, 1885. 

 (/. M. Macoun.) Taken at Beauport, a rare permanent resident 

 in Quebec. {Dionne.) A rare winter resident ; occasionally visits 

 the city river ice-dump. {Wintie.) Rare visitant to the north of 

 Ottawa; occasionally seen near the city. {Ottawa Naturalist^ 

 Vol. V.) A common bird on the Magdalen Islands, breeding in 

 the rocks and occasionally in the larger spruce trees. Rare in the 

 cultivated parts of Ontario. I have seen a pair flying at a great 

 height near Combermere, Renfrew Co., in the month of Jaituary. 

 {Rev. C.J. Young?) A common resident in Parry Sound district ; 

 rarer in Muskoka. (/. H. Fleming?) I met with one or more of 

 these birds daily during a three week's trip to Whitney, near 

 Algonquin Park, Ont., in the fall of 1898. {J.Hughes-Samuel?) 

 Very rare along the large marshes in the London district. {W.E. 

 Saunders?) We saw several between Robinson Portage and Pine 

 Lake, Keewatin, June 28th, and while descending Hill River, July 

 8th, noticed a pair flying about the face of a high clay bank. 

 Except for one specimen seen at Fort Churchill, July 30th, we 

 did not again note the species. {Prebles.) 



Occasionally observed on the International Boundary Lat. 

 49°, but no specimens were taken. {Coues.) A tolerably common 

 winter visitant; probably nesting in the northern lands. {Thomp- 

 son-Seton.) This well-known bird abounds in the Northwest Ter- 

 ritories and visits the remotest islands of the Arctic Sea. 

 {Richardson?) North on the Mackenzie River to Arctic coast ; 

 abundant. {Ross.) This species is abundant at Fort Anderson 

 and on the lower Lockhart and Anderson rivers ; and although 

 not seen by us there it may possibly breed on the shores of the 

 Arctic Sea. {Macfarla?ie.) Everywhere throughout the entire 

 territory of Alaska, including the shores of the Arctic Ocean and 

 Behring Sea and the various islands of the latter, this bird is a 

 well known resident. {Nelson.) This species is a resident 



