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{A. F. Young.) Eight specimens, including one in juvenal plumage, 

 were collected at York Factory, Hudson Bay, July 12th to i6th, 

 1900, where the. birds were abundant, and a very bright male was 

 taken at Fort Churchill, July 23rd. {E. A. Prebks.) 



An abundant fall and winter visitor in Manitoba ; feeding 

 on the seeds of various plants. {Thompson-Seton.) A few 

 specimens were seen on the Clearwater River below Methye 

 Portage; common on the portage. {J. M. Mcicoun.) A common 

 and regular winter visitor near Prince Albert, Sask., ar- 

 riving in small flocks nearly at the same time as the pine gros- 

 beak and remaining sometimes late in the spring. {Coube ux) 

 This neat and hardy bird is one of the permanent residents in the 

 Northwest Territories where it may be seen in the coldest weather 

 on the banks of lakes and rivers, hopping among reeds and carices 

 or clinging to their stalks. {Richardson.) North to Fort Good 

 Hope oh the Mackenzie River ; abundant. {Ross.) This species 

 was just as abundant as the Greenland redpoll in the wooded 

 country, and we procured as many nests as of it. {Mac/arla7ie.) 

 This species was seen in large flocks at Indian Head, Assa., 

 during the first three weeks of April, 1892, after which they all 

 disappeared. April 7th, 1894, saw a flock of sixteen at Medicine 

 Hat, Assa. Two specimens were seen at Edmonton, Alta., on 

 April 19th, 1897 ; common in flocks around Revelstoke, B.C., up 

 to the last of April, 1890; seen at the lower end of Lower Arrow 

 Lake, Columbia River, June i8th, 1890. {Spreadborougk) An 

 abundant summer resident in British Columbia. {Lord.) Common 

 throughout the province. {Fannin.) Irregular winter visitant at 

 Chilliwack; common winter resident at Lake Okanagon, B.C., also 

 common in the Cariboo district in winter. {Brooks.) This species 

 is found in Alaska in smaller numbers than the preceding. On 

 the southeastern coast of the territory, including Kadiak and the 

 Sitkan region, the present bird is found to the exclusion of the 

 other. {Nelson.) This species is a common resident of all parts 

 of Alaska, excepting the Aleutian Islands. In the latter district 

 it is a summer visitor only, though breeding there I have never 

 observed it west of Unalaska Island. {Turner.) Large flocks were 

 seen frequently both at Hope and Tyonek, Cook's Inlet, Alaska, 

 in August, 1900. {Osgood.) Of the 112 skins taken at Kotzebue 

 Sound only seven were referable to -this species. Although few 

 were taken they evidently breed in the country as specimens were 



