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gonquin Park, Ont. A few seen breeding in a bank at Whitefish 

 Lake. {Spreadborough.) Abundant where suitable breeding 

 places are, even sometimes in thousands in the cliffs along Lake 

 Erie. These birds always make an oval hole for nesting about 

 ij^ inches by 2%, and from one to three feet in length. {W. E. 

 Saunders.) A fairly common summer resident at Guelph, Ont. {A. 

 B.Klugh) An abundant summer resident at Penetanguishine, Ont. 

 {A.F. Young.) 



A small colony was found on Red River, a few miles below 

 Winnipeg, June 14th, 1901, and a large one in a high clay 

 bank on the shore of' Oxford Lake, near Oxford House, June 

 30th. Several colonies were seen on Hayes River, a few miles 

 above York Factory. {E. A. Prebles.) This species was found 

 everywhere along the 49th parallel where there were cut banks 

 suitable for breeding sites for the digging of holes in which the 

 nests are constructed. {Coues.) A somewhat common summer 

 resident in Manitoba. They excavate their nests in the banks of 

 the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle, and breed in colonies. (Thomp- 

 son-Seton.) First individual was seen at Indian Head, Assa., May 

 30th, 1892, after this time they became common, they must breed 

 near here as they were seen in numbers up to June 27th when I 

 left; very common on Skull Creek, near Crane Lake, Assa., they 

 reached there June nth and began breeding in the cut banks of 

 the creek; dug out two nests, but only obtained three eggs, one 

 in one nest and two In the other; one was seen later in the 

 month at the east end of the Cypress Hills; in 1895 ^^i^ species 

 was first noticed at Old Wives' Creek, Assa., and afterwards on 

 the prairie wherever there were cut-banks to Frenchman's River; 

 it was also seen on the prairie at the west end of the Cypress 

 Hills; later it was found to be abundant along the Milk River, 

 St. Mary's River and Lee's Creek, almost to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains ; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., May 8th, 1897; breeding in 

 the river bank below the lower ferry by May 22nd; common from 

 Lesser Slave Lake to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15', in June, 

 1903; breeding in the banks of Bragg's Creek, about 40 miles 

 southwest of Calgary, June 25th; breeding in the cut banks of the 

 Bow River, below Banff, in the Rocky Mountains, in June, 1891; 

 abundant at Kamloops, B.C., 1889; a flock was seen in the Eagle 

 Pass, 5 miles west of Revelstoke, May 13th, 1890, but none in the 

 Columbia valley; breeding in numbers in the bank of the Colum- 



