CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 709 



(Downs.) Uncommon resident in Kings county, N.S., though chiefly 

 in summer. (H. F. Tufts.) Saw one, October 25th, 1905, on Sable 

 island, N.S. (/. Boutelier.) A rather rare summer resident at St. 

 John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) A scarce permanent resident at Scotch 

 Lake, York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) A common transient 

 visitant around Montreal; observed nearly all the year; a few 

 possibly breed and winter there. (Wintle.) This bird is frequently 

 met with in eastern Quebec; taken at Beauport. (Dionne.) 



A common winter migrant around Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) I have frequently noticed this bird in the fall and early 

 spring, though but seldom in the summer ; neither have I observed 

 it breeding in eastern Ontario, though it probably does. (Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) A very common resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka 

 districts. Common migrant at Toronto, possibly a rare summer 

 resident. (/. H. Fleming.) Not very common in Algonquin park, 

 Ont. ; have not seen its nest. (Spreadborough.) A common migrant, 

 but a rare summer resident around London, Ont. (W. E. Saunders.) 

 Common resident at Guelph, Ont. ; more abundant in autumn, 

 winter and spring than in summer. (A. B. Kliigh.) A common 

 resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) A very rare 

 summer resident of woodlands in eastern Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) 

 Common in Manitoba as a migrant but not noted breeding. (Atkin- 

 son.) 



Breeding Notes. — Have taken several nests at Ottawa, always 

 in deserted woodpecker's holes. The nests are made of grasses and 

 lichens, lined with hair and feathers; eggs 6, white with sparingly 

 distributed reddish brown dots. (G. R. White.) Breeds in Welland 

 county, Ont., where Mr. Reinecke has taken its nest and eggs; it is 

 more plentiful in Muskoka and in northern Ontario, where it makes 

 its nest of twigs in a decayed tree-stub under the loose bark and lays 

 5 to 6 white eggs, heavily spotted with reddish brown, chiefly at the 

 largest end. (W. Raine.) On July 14th, 1903, I saw many brown 

 creepers in a swamp and going to a likely looking balsam stub and 

 striking it, there was a great commotion at its base and several young 

 creepers fluttered away in different directions. I found that I had 

 broken off a large piece of bark about two feet from the base of the 

 stub, thus disclosing the nest, which was fastened to the loose bark 

 with threads of spider's silk. It was a very deep structure though 

 necessarily much flattened (as the bark was only about three inches 



