Xanthocephalus icterocephalus in Lower Canada. — While on 
the Lower St. Lawrence, in July last, Mr. N. A. Comeau handed me for 
identification the skin of a Yellow-headed Blackbird ( Xanthocephalus 
icterocephalus) that he shot, early in September (“about Sept. 4”), 1878, 
in his dooryard, at Gedbout River, Province of Quebec, Canada — six miles 
west of the entrance to the Gulf. — C. Hart Merriam, M. D., Locust 
Grove , New York. 1 
Bua N, 0.0, 3, Oct, 1881 , p, -?V 6 . 
Birds within Ten Miles of Point 
de Monts, Gan, Comeatt & Merriam 
42. Xanthocephalus icterocephalus. Yellow-headed Blackbird. 
— An accidental straggler from the west. Mr. Comeau shot a male of this 
species in his dooryard, at Godbout, early in September, 1878.* 
Bull, N, 0.0, 7 , Oct, 1,882. P. 236 
Records from Toronto, H.E.T.Setoa 
Yellow-headed Blackbird. Xanthocephalus ictero- 
cephalus. — This species has been taken a number of times, in 
company with the Red-winged Blackbird, by Mr. Wm. Loane, 
who describes it as the Californian Blackbird. The specimen I 
examined was taken by that gentleman ; it is now in the posses- 
sion of Mr. Jacobs of Centre Street, Toronto. 
Auk, 2, Oct., 1886, p.334 
182 . Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Yellow-headed Black- 
B ird. — Accidental; one record, a male taken about 1885 ; this bird is. 
now in my collection. 1 
1 Auk, II, 1885, 334. 
