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Family XLI. STURNID-Sl Starlings. 



CLXXIV. STURNUS Linn^us. 1758. 



'493. Starling. 



Sturniis vulgaris Linn. 1758. 



A single specimen sent by Holboell to Copenhagen. {Arct. 

 Man.) 



Family XLII. ICTES,ID.ffi!. Blackbirds, Orioles, &c. 



CLXXV. DOLICHONYX Swainson. 1827. 



' 494. Bobolink. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linn.) Swains. 1827. 



Summer resident on Cape Breton Island ; but rare. [Dzvight.) 

 Common in summer ; breeds in all the marshes in Nova Scotia. 

 {Downs.) One seen at North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, May 

 24th, igoi; common on the meadows at Amherst, N.S. {C. R. 

 Harte.) Abundant in summer along the Cornwallis valley, N.S. 

 {H. Ttcfts.) A common summer resident in New Brunswick. 

 {Chamberlain.) An abundant summer resident in suitable places at 

 Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (// .H.Moore.) A common summer 

 resident in Quebec. {DiouTie.) An abundant summer resident 

 around Montreal. {Wintle.) 



A common summer resident at Ottawa ; breeds on the Ex- 

 perimental Farm. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) One of the 

 species that is finding its way northward. It is only a new 

 arrival in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. I saw a 

 female at Emsdale in May, 1899 ; she was seen later in the sum- 

 mer with a male and a brood of young. Mr. Tavernier saw the 

 first one at Beaumaris in August, 1897, and reported them as in- 

 creasing in 1898. (/. H. Fleming) In spite of the slaughter of 

 these birds in the rice fields it is yet common in the London 

 district ; it is more rare in the Bruce peninsula, and a few were 

 noted on Manitoulin Island in 1880. {W. E. Saunders.) 



At Pembina in June, bobolinks were breeding in large numbers 

 on the open prairie adjoining the Red River. The ground near 

 the river has a meadowy character, which seems exactly to suit 

 them, and they were evidently perfectly at home. On Lat. 49° 

 I traced the species westward to the Rocky Mountains, where it 



