CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. ' 445 



■with redpolls. {Witmore Stone.) A summer migrant in Newfound- 

 land. {Reeks.) Large flocks seen commonly along the Humber 

 River, Newfoundland, 1899. {Louis H. Porter.) Rather common 

 in Nova Scotia ; a summer resident. {Downs.) Three seen on 

 Sable Island, N.S., June 3rd, one on July 24th and a number 

 on October 4th, 1902. {Janus Bouteillier.) A few observed 

 at Baddeck, Cape Breton Island. {F. H. Allen.) Small flocks 

 were seen at Shulee, Cumberland Co., N.S. and at Hebert River 

 in December ; none were seen at Parrsboro. When I returned to 

 Hebert River in March I found it by far the most abundant 

 bird. {Morrell.) Large flocks seen at North Sydney, Cape Bre- 

 ton Island, in November, 1901, and on June 8th, 1902 ; probably 

 breeds. {C. R. Harte.) Breeds near Wolfville, Kings Co., N. S., 

 regularly in May and June and usually is common till September ; 

 at other times of the year it is very irregular. {H. Tufts.) It 

 surprised me to meet this species but once on Prince Edward Is- 

 land, — a male at Souris. {Dwight.) A common species in New 

 Bruijswick; breeds very early. {Chamberlain^ A very irregular 

 winter visitor; I think that some years it breeds at Scotch Lake, 

 York Co., N.B. {W. II.Moore.) Quite common in the Restigouche 

 valley, N.B., in summer. {Brittain &■ Cox.) One of the most 

 abundant birds on the Magdalen Islands until July, 1887. {Bishop.) 

 Abundant at Gaspe and apparently nesting in the spruces and 

 balsams in the village street, July 14th; later, July 24th, it was 

 found in flocks at Ellis Bay, Anticosti. {Brewster.) Taken at Beau- 

 port; a common summer resident in eastern Quebec. {Dionne.) A 

 common winter visitant at Montreal ; I observed a large flock of 

 these birds, October, i8th, 1885 on Isle Jesus, feeding on willows. 

 {Wintle.) 



A common winter resident at Ottawa, Ont. ; though some- 

 what irregular in its visits like most of our winter birds. 

 Summer records are as follows : May 10, 1882; May 15, and August 

 15, 1884; May 2, 1888, and May 16, 1890. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 

 V.) I have often met with immense flocks in the Parry Sound 

 and Muskoka districts. They keep together till May when they 

 either disperse or disappear. In the winter the flocks are joined 

 by redpolls and goldfinches. (/. H. Fleming.) A winter visitor at 

 -Guelph, Ont. {A. B. Klugh.) Winter resident at Penetanguishehe, 

 Ont. {A.^ F. Young.) An irregular migrant in Manitoba; often 

 seen in flocks of hundreds. {Thompson-Seton.) Two specimens 



