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winters; rare during other winters ; none observed during sum- 

 mer; breeds in central portion of Labrador and resident there. 

 {Packard?) Common throughout the year in N'ewfoundland. 

 {Reeks.) Irregularly abundant after the breeding season in Nova 

 Scotia. {Downs) Occasionally seen in flocks at Baddeck and 

 Margaree, Cape Breton Island, N.S., July, 1898; a very large flock 

 in spruce woods at Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island, June, 

 1888. {Macoiin.) Rather common on Prince Edward Island. 

 {Dwight.) Very erratic. Remained at Sydney, Capfe Breton 

 Island, all winter, 1898-99, and bred freely the following February 

 and March. Ivan Bayley found many nests. The birds left very 

 suddenly in April, leaving several broods of young. {C.R. Harte.) 

 Seen in King's Co., N.S., only in winter and early spring, and are 

 of irregular occurrence. They frequent the tops of spruce and fir 

 trees where they gather the seeds from the cones. {H. Tufts.) 



Common winter resident at St. John, N.B.; a few breed every 

 spring. {Chamberlain.) On July 24th I observed a flock of eight 

 or ten individuals at Ellis Bay, Anticosti. {Brewster.) Seen 

 during the winter at Lake Mistassini, Quebec. (/. M. Macoun.) 

 Common on Grindstone and Entry islands, and probably on 

 other islands of the Magdalen Islands. {Bishop,) Common winter 

 visitor at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B., in 1899, previously rare. 

 {W. H. Moore.) A common summer resident in eastern Quebec. 

 {Dionne.y A common but transient visitor at Montreal. I saw a 

 flock of this species feeding on the cones of cedar trees at 

 Hochelaga, Que., on December 8th, 1888. {Wintle.) 



A large flock of this species was seen near Beechwood ceme- 

 tery, Ottawa, Ont., in June, 1882. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 I saw this bird commonly in the Magdalen Islands in the month of 

 June, i897,and have no doubt but that it breeds there in the spruce 

 woods though I could not with certainty locate a nest. In that 

 same year, in the month of April, I saw three of these birds on an 

 island in the St. Lawrence, near Lansdowne, Ont., feeding on some 

 hemlock trees and frequently alighting on the ground in search 

 of hemlock seeds. {Rev. C.J. Young.) Not as abundant as the 

 preceding, but found in both districts. {J. H. Fleming) A few 

 seen almost every season, but never really abundant, at Toronto; 

 I found them particularly abundant at Whitney, near Algonquin 

 Park, Ont., in the fall of 1898 and fairly so at Kaladar, Addington 



