230 The Ottawa Naturalist. [March 



roug-hly the habitat of various Indian tribes. Please note the 

 incursion of the Crees, who are of Algonquin stock, into the 

 ■country of the Tinnie or Dhinnie family. Of the existence of the 

 Iroquois about Jasper House you will have been long aware. 



J. A. Macrae. 



TWO WARBLERS NEW TO CANADA. 



By W. L. Kells, Listovvel, Ont. 



Among the most interesting ornithological events to the stu- 

 dents of natural science in the season of 1900 was the securing of 

 specimens of two species ol birds new to the avifaunian lists 

 of Canada. Both of these birds belong to the family of the 

 Warblers and the genus Detidroica, and both of the specimens 

 obtained were of the male sex. The names of the new visitants 

 are the Kirtland's Warbler [D. Kirtlandi) ya.r\d the Prairie Warbler 

 D. discolor). The specimen of the latter was taken on the i ith of 

 May and that of the former on the i6th of the same month, and 

 the fortunate collector was Mr. J. H. Samuel, an ornithologist of 

 Toronto, who reports his discovery of these as well as the discovery 

 of other rare specimens to Mr. C. W. Nash, who edits the 

 "Studies in Nature" department of The Fanning World. In 

 introducing Mr. Samuel's report Mr. Nash says : — " These records 

 will be of the greatest interest to naturalists, as they include two 

 species of birds that have never before been found in Canada." 



The Kirtland's Warbler. 



Regarding the Kirtland's Warbler, Mr. Nash remarks : "The 

 capture of the Kirtland's Warbler near Toronto is quite the most 

 interesting event of the season. This warbler is one of the least 

 known of North American birds, only seventy-five specimens being 

 in American collections up to Jan. ist, 1899, and, of these, fifty-five 

 were taken in the Bahamas, the other twenty having been taken 

 in the United States. The rarity of this bird makes it improbable 

 that we shall hear or see anything of it again for some time, 



