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found in the neighbourhood of trading posts and lonely settlers; 

 a common summer resident at Banff, Rocky Mountains, replaced 

 to the west hy propingua [?] (Macoun.) A very abundant summer 

 visitor at Prince Albert, Sask.; breeding throughout the country. 

 (Couieaux.) Very abundant at Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan, 

 though none were seen at Chemawawin. {Nutting?) Very abundant 

 between Edmonton and Athabasca Landing; more plentiful at 

 the latter place than anywhere else; only one pair seen between 

 Athabasca Landing and Lesser Slave River; none down the Atha- 

 basca to Fort McMurray, there very common; none up the Clear-, 

 water to Methye Portage, but common there; seen here and there 

 where there-are clearings from Methye Lake to Isle a la Crosse. 

 (/. M. Macoun!) Quite common at Edmonton, Alta., first seen 

 April i6th, by May 6th many were building nests and early in 

 June eggs were hatched; common in the foothills to the Inter- 

 national Boundary; quite common from the mouth of Lesser Slave 

 River to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56^* 15', in June, 1903. {Spread- 

 borough^ This species appeared at Carlton House on April 22nd, 

 1827, in Lat. 53**; the same season it reached Fort Chipweyan in 

 Lat. 58%° on May 7th and Fort Franklin in Lat. 65° on the 20th of 

 the same month. (Richardson^ North to Lapierre's House, on 

 the Mackenzie River; abundant. (Ross.) This is a common bird 

 both at Fort Anderson and on the banks of the Swan and Wil- 

 mot-Horton rivers in the Barren Grounds. (Macfarlane.) Rare 

 migrant at Chilliwack. {Brooks.) 



Throughout the entire wooded portion of Alaska this bird is 

 found more or less numerous during summer, and along the tree- 

 less coast of Behring Sea and Kotzebue Sound it appears merely 

 as a straggler in the migrations. (Nelson.) This species is quite 

 common at Fort Yukon, where it breeds. (Turner.) One indi- 

 vidual seen on St. Paul Island, Alaska, in October, 1872. (Elliott.) 

 The miners that we met at Hope and Sunrise, Cook's Inlet, 

 Alaska, reported that the " regular eastern robin " had often 

 been seen there. We did not observe it ourselves in the month 

 of August, the time of our stay at these points. (Osgood.) Tol- 

 erably common at Haines and Skagway, but not at Glacier. At 

 Haines I took a female and four well-incubated eggs, June 2nd. 

 Robins were common at Log Cabin, June 15th, and were found 

 regularly but in gradually decreasing numbers until August ist, 

 when the last was noted near Sixty-mile Creek. A flock seen 



