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;ommon, but from three to (twelve birds in a flock. {Morrell.) 

 Three seen on Sable Island, N.S., April 21st ; one in July and a 

 lumber in October, 1902. {James Bouteillier.) 



An abundant winter resident in New Brunswick. {Chatnberlain.) 

 \ common winter visitor at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. 

 W. H. Moore.) Leave Lake Mistissini, Que., for the north about 

 VTay loth. (/. M. Macoun.) A common winter resident in 

 ;astern Quebec. {Diojine) Abundant winter visitant at Mont- 

 eal, arrives about the middle of October in large flocks! I have 

 observed them at Montreal from October 19th to April 26th. 

 Wintle.) A common winter visitor at Ottawa, Ont. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Commonly seen in large flocks during winter. 

 '. saw immense numbers at the head of Wolfe Island, near Kings- 

 ion, Ont., in October, 1900, just before cold weather set in. Flocks 

 emained until March, igoi. This bird, though nesting com- 

 nonly in high latitudes sometimes rears its young on lofty moun- 

 :ains. A friend of mine found the nest on the Grampian Moun- 

 ;ains in Invernesshire, Scotland. {Rev. C. J. Young!) Abundant 

 n the winter in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts ; the last 

 eave for the north soon after the ist of May, and some are back 

 ■yy the 1st of October. {J. H. Fleming^ A winter visitor at 

 juelph, Ont. {A. B. Klugh.) An abundant winter resident at 

 Penetanguishene, Ont. {A. F. Young.) 



Very abundant in early spring; fall and winter resident in 

 Manitoba. {Tkompson-Seton.) Very abundant in the spring and 

 'all migrations at Indian Head, Assa.; a few at Egg Lake, near 

 Peace River Lat. 56°, August 30th, and at Lesser Slave Lake, 

 September 5th, 1903 ; on McLeod River northwest of Edmonton, 

 \lta., saw three on October 2nd, 1898, and hundreds of them on 

 ;he shore of Lake Ste. Anne, October 12th; verycommon at Banff 

 n winter and doubtless eastward to Manitoba; seen at Revelstoke, 

 B.C., April 9th, 1890, disappeared on the nth. {Spreadborough^ 

 This neat and elegant bird breeds in the northernmost of the Am- 

 erican islands, and on all the shores of the continent, from Chester- 

 leld Inlet toBehring Strait. The most southerly breeding place 

 ■ecorded is Southampton Island in Lat. 62°, where Captain Lyons 

 'ound a nest placed in the bosom of the corpse of an Eskimo 

 ;hild. {Richardson^ North to Fort Good Hope on the Mackenzie; 

 ibundant. {Ross^ On the 8th July, 1864, a nest of this species 



