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swamps at East Point, Magdalen Islands. {Bishop.) Common 

 and breeding at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec. {J. M. 

 Macoun.) Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Wright) A common 

 transient visitant in the Montreal district; arrives in small flocks 

 in spring and passes further north to breed, returning in autumn 

 in larger flocks. .( Wintle.) York Factory, Hudson Bay. {Dr. R. 

 Bell.) 



A common spring and autumn migrant; it may breed sparingly in 

 the northern part of the Ottawa district. {Ottawa Naiuralist, VoL 

 V.) I found thisbird breeding commonly in the Magdalen Islands. 

 In the month of June the young were hatched and I secured two 

 sets of eggs from there. In the summer of 1898 I saw one bird 

 near Lansdowne, Ont., but in the month of October large flocks 

 arrive from the north. {Rev. C.J. Young.) Assembling in large 

 flocks in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts; I am not aware that 

 they breed in these districts. {J. H. Fleming!) 



Several seen and a female taken near the head of Echimamish, 

 Keewatin, where they were undoubtedly breeding. Large flocks 

 seen at Fort Churchill. Later, in the season of 1901, they were 

 found abundant on the return south from York Factory. {Prebles.) 

 The rusty grackle enters Dakota from the north in September,, 

 and then mixes indiscriminately with Brewer's blackbird; but the 

 two will not be found together during the breeding season. 

 {Coues.) An enormously abundant migrant in Manitoba in the 

 spring and autumn migrations ; a few may breed. {Thompson- 

 Seton.) Common at Indian Head in the spring of 1892 ; none 

 were observed on the prairie in 1894 and 1895 ! •" the spring of 

 1897 they were abundant at Edmonton, Alta., and a nest was 

 taken in a thicket overhanging a pool of water. {Spreadborough.) 

 Common at Chemawawin, near the Grand Rapids of the Sas- 

 katchewan. \Autting.) Arrives in the spring in flocks between 

 the forks of the Saskatchewan. {Coubeaux.) Abundant every- 

 where between Calgary and Athabasca Landing in northern 

 Alberta; rare at Fort McMurray in Lat. 56° 30' ; not rare at 

 Methye Portage; abundant between Methye Lake and Isle a la 

 Crosse in 1888. {J.M. Macoun) This was a fairly common bird 

 along the Kowak, Kotzebue Sound, from the delta eastward. 

 They were seen in small flocks until September 8th, and the fol- 

 lowing spring returned in flocks. May 22nd, after which they 

 separated into smaller groups. {Grinnell.) This sombre-coloured 

 bird is the most northern of the American Sturnidce^ its summer 



