174 The Ottawa Naturalist. [Mar. 



Winter Wren, Nannus hiemalis — Nests in swampy places. 



Not singing in August and therefore hard to find. 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren, Tehnatodytes palustris — Abundant 



in the marsh. Their nests are to be found all over, and the 



birds scold the intruder as his canoe is pushed among the 



reeds. 

 Brown Creeper, Cerihia jamiliaris — Only one or two observed. 

 White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis — Very common. 

 Red-breasted Nuthatch, Siita canadensis — A few seen each 



year. Breeds. 

 Black-capped Chickadee, Penthestes atricapillus — Around the 



camp all the time. 

 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Regulus calendula — One or two seen 



in 1912. 

 Veery, Hylocichla juscescens — Common. 

 Robin, Planesticus migratorius — Common. 

 Bluebird, Sialia sialis — A number seen each year. 



The discover}^ of this bird and its use of the Trent Valley 

 as a migration route adds considerably to our knowledge of its 

 distribution in Canada. About five years ago Mr. John Firth, 

 Durham, was authority for the statement made to Mr. W. E. 

 Saunders, that a mounted specimen in his collection came from 

 an island near Parry Sound "where they were breeding." Mr. 

 Saunders had no opportunity of investigating this matter for 

 himself but at his request, Mr. Gu}^ A. Bailey of Geneseo, N. Y., 

 went to Parry Sound about 1911 to investigate the matter and 

 found, sure enough, that the bird nested in considerable numbers 

 on at least one of the islands in that district. He returned 

 with photographs of the eggs and young. 



Prior to this discovery the only place where these birds 

 were known to nest in the Great Lakes was a little cluster of 

 islands in Lake Michigan and now, following the addition of this 

 bird to the Canadian breeding list comes this definition of its 

 migration route. 



This bird is seen in both spring and fall migrations on 

 Lakes Huron, St. Clair, Erie and Ontario, but nowhere has it 

 been reported in anything like the numbers that have been seen 

 on Sturgeon lake. 



Mr. Saunders and his friends, who make such frequent 

 visits to Point Pelee, have always found this species to be rare; 

 and its size, coupled with its peculiar call, almost dog-like in 

 tone, together with the fact that Terns are ustially noisy, 

 renders it likely that very few pass unnoticed within the range 

 of the observer. 



