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bers of them fly down to a pool of snow water in Queen's Park to 

 drink and bathe or rather splash themselves. I saw four on 14th 

 Dec, 1895 — one on 5th March, 1896, with a flock of A. cedrorum; 

 and on 31st Dec, 1896, I saw a fine male taken from a 

 small flock just north of the city. A few remained with us till 

 late in April, and on the i6th of this month I saw them in the 

 tall elms in University grounds, having changed their habits 

 entirely, for they were chasing every luckless winged insect that 

 came in sight, and snapping their bills much after the manner 

 of the flycatchers. Mr. Percival Turner writes me that he saw 

 a small flock in the English Church yard at Belleville on 6th 

 February, 1900. (/. Hughes-Samuel^ 



Three' were observed by Mr. Alfred E. Prebles in the stunted 

 spruce woods near Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, on July 25th, 

 1901. Mr. J. B. Tyrrell speaks of seeing a flock "in a grove of 

 birch trees near the shore of Theitaga Lake, on their breeding 

 grounds." This lake is situated about 300 miles slightly north of 

 west of Fort Churchill. (.£. A. Prebles?) A tolerably common 

 winter resident in Manitoba. {Thompsoti-Seton.) An uncommon 

 stra:ggler near Prince Albert, Sask.; shot once only, but twice 

 noted in the spring of 1895. {Coubeaux.) One specimen of this 

 species in first plumage was shot on the mountain side adjoining 

 Chief Mountain Lake (Waterton Lake) at an altitude of about 

 4,200 feet in thick coniferous woods, where it was in company 

 with numbers of Ampelis cedrorum. Being taken on August 19th 

 it was evidently in its summer home. i^Coues^ One specimen 

 seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., April nth, 1894, and another on the 

 14th of the same month; a common species at Canmore, Rocky 

 Mountains, in May, 1891, but no nests were seen. [In 1885, 

 the writer shot young birds, on June 27th, at the same place, and 

 had no doubt about nests being in the spruce woods that then 

 filled the valley.] I believe that a colony, or more than one, of 

 these birds exists on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 

 and doubtless are permanent residents; saw a large flock on Lake 

 Mountain, east of the Columbia River, on the International Boun- 

 dary, B.C., Nov. 3rd, 1902; saw three near the summit of the Rocky 

 Mountains in the Athabasca Pass, July nth, 1898 ; also a flock of 

 about fifty on the Brazeau River, September 24th, said to stay in 

 the Mountains all winter. {Spreadborough) This elegant bird has 

 only lately bee.n detected in America, having been discovered in 



