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post at Lac du Brochet, situated at the north-eastern extremity 

 of Reindeer Lake, in aboiit latitude 58° 30' north, and longi- 

 tude 101° west of Greenwich. This locality marks, as far 

 as is yet known, the most northern authenticated point of its 

 range." In his List of Birds, however. Chief Trader B. R. 

 Ross remarks : " Though no specimen of this bird has been 

 procured, I once observed it at Fort Simpson, Mackenzie 

 River, latitude 61° 51' north." 



Major Bendire states that " incubation lasts about four- 

 teen days, and in sixteen more the young leave the nest. The 

 eggs vary in shape from ovate to elliptical and elongate ovate ; 

 the shell is finely granulated, strong and rather glossy. The 

 ground colour varies from grayish white to pale greenish 

 white, and this is profusely and pretty evenly blotched and 

 speckled over the entire surface with different shades of 

 browns, cinnamon, rufous, ecru, drab, and pearl gray. The 

 markings are usually heaviest about the larger end of the 

 egg, and sometimes a specimen is met with which shows 

 a few fine hair-like tracings like those found on the eggs of 

 the oriole." 



In the Ottawa Canadian Museum there are four speci- 

 mens and four sets of eggs taken at Crane Lake, Saskatch- 

 ewan Province, on June 8th, 1894. There were many other 

 nests containing young or partly incubated eggs. 



498. RED-wiN"CiEn Bi.ACKBiED — Agelaius phoeniceus (Linn.). 



The skin of a male obtained at Fort Resolution, Great 

 Slave Lake, summer 1880, was thereafter forwarded to Mr. 

 Dalgleish. A female example shot at Fond du Lac, Atha- 

 basca, was sent to Dr. Bell in 1885. The, species no doubt 

 breeds at both places. Messrs. Kennicott and Lockhart found 

 nests at the former point. over forty years ago. Early in 

 June, 1890, Mrs. W. C. King secured a nest holding four 

 eggs near Moose Lake, Cumberland. Both parents were 

 shot. About the same time Mr. E. Haight discovered a 

 nest at the Pas Mountain containing four eggs, and shot 



