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occurs plentifully in southern portions' of Labrador. {Packard?) 

 Common on Moose River to James Bay at Moose Factory ; none 

 seen further north in 1896. {Spreadborough.) Common in Nova 

 Scotia ; a few stop all winter. {Downs.) A pair seen at Shulee, 

 Cumberland Co., N.S., Jan. 2nd, 1899. {Morrell.) Bayley says this 

 species is common at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, and breeds. 

 {C. R. Harte.) Common in summer in Kings Co., N.S.; a few 

 remain through the winter. {H. Tufts) Common at Margaree 

 and Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, N.S., July, 1898 ; breeding in 

 the woods at Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island, June, 1888. 

 {Macoun.) Sparingly distributed ; a restless and roving species, 

 and seen singly or in pairs on Prince Edward Island. {Dwight.) 

 A common resident in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) Tolerably 

 common summer resident, but very irregular in its time of arrival 

 in spring at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B.; nests in conifers from 

 a few feet up in low bushes in pastures to high up in forest trees. 

 {W: H. Moore.) Rather rare in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; a male 

 seen and others heard on the Magdalen Islands. {Bishop.) Com- 

 in the Restigouche valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) An abundant 

 species of general distribution about the shores of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence and its islands. {Brewster.) Rather common summer 

 resident in eastern Quebec. {Dionns.) A common summer resid- 

 ent but some remain all winter. Breeds on the island of Montreal. 

 I found a nest containing four eggs, June 20th, 1891, in Mount 

 Royal park, built in a small spruce tree ; have noticed them from 

 Feby. 5th to Oct. 25th ; often feeding in winter on mountain ash 

 berries. {Wintle.) 



A common summer resident at Ottawa, Ont.; abundant in migra- 

 tion. There are a few winter records of this species one of which 

 is Dec. 29th, 1885. {Ottawa Naturalist^ o\N .) A common summer 

 resident in the districts of Parry Sound and Muskoka. (/. H. 

 Fleming) Abundant at Cache Lake, Algonquin Park, Ont.; breed- 

 ing in low, wet woods. {Spreadborough) Often seen in numbers 

 but certainly a much less frequent summer resident than formerly. 

 In 1886 many stayed all summer in London, Ont., where they had 

 been scarce during several previous years. In 1899 its scarcity 

 was remarkable. It is seen the whole year round but most notice- 

 ably common in spring. {W.E. Saunders) A common migrant 

 in spring and fall at Guelph, Ont.; arrives about April 15th and 

 leaves about Oct. 4th ; a few breed. {A. B. Klugh) This species 



