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summer resident in both the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. 

 (/. H. Fleming^ Common around the buildings at Cache Lake, 

 Algonquin Park, Ont., June, 1900. (Spreadborough.) Common 

 everywhere, and is to be found every winter in varying numbers 

 in the cedar swamps about London, Ont. In the spring, erratic 

 flocks are seen now here, now there; but they begin to seek their 

 summer quarters, to sing and to be regularly observed about April 

 28th, on an average of fourteen years. {W. E. Saunders.) A com- 

 mon resident ; most abundant in summer around Guelph, Ont. 

 {A.B.Klugh.) An abundant summer resident at Penetanguishene, 

 Ont. ; breeds. {A. F. Youug.) 



This familiar bird was noted only at Pembina on the borders of 

 Manitoba. {Coues.) A common summer resident in Manitoba. 

 I have not noted this bird in Manitoba«before the end of May. 

 In this country it finds neither thistles nor orchards, so it feeds 

 largely on the seed of Rudbeckia hirta and Gaillardia aristata, and 

 nests in the low poplars and oaks on the edges of the heavier 

 timber. {Thompson-Seton.) Quite common in the vicinity of 

 Brandon, Man., 1896. {Macoun.) First seen at Indian Head, 

 Assa., June ist, 1892, but were quite common by the loth; they 

 breed there ; one individual was seen at Crane Lake, Assa., June 

 I ith, 1894, and on the25th of the same month two pairs were seen 

 in the east end of the Cypress Hills, Assa.; eight of these birds 

 were seen at 12-Mile Lake and afterwards at Wood Mountain, 

 Assa., as late as June 17th, 1895; seen next, June 27th, in Fare- 

 well Creek valley, in the Cypress Hills, and on the 30th along 

 Sucker Creek, Assa.; common in the valley of Milk River, 

 especially at Castellated Rocks, also on St. Mary's River and 

 Lee's Creek, Alta., and near Chief Mountain at the base of the 

 Rocky Mountains. {Spreadborougk.) This very gay goldfinch is 

 one of the tardiest summer visitors in the Northwest Territories, 

 and it retires southwards in September after a stay of a little over 

 three months. {Richardson.) A tolerably common summer 

 resident near Prince Albert, Sask., breeding throughout the 

 region. {Coubeaux.) 



Breeding Notes. — A common breeding summer resident at 

 Ottawa, Ont. Its nest is often built in a white cedar, and is com- 

 posed of downy and other soft vegetable matter; a very neat 

 and compact affair, lined 'with horse hair, fine grass and down. 



