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CLXXXVI. SAYORNIS Bonaparte. 1854. 

 456. Phoebe. 



Sayornis phoebe (Lath.) Stejn. 1885. 



A summer migrant in Newfoundland but not common. (Reeks.) 

 One pair seen near Dominion mine, Sydney, Cape Breton island, 

 N.S., August 30th, 1901. (C. R. Harte.) A common summer 

 resident in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) A rare spring migrant 

 at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. {W . H. Moore.) An irregular 

 summer visitor at Beauport, Que. (Dionne.) A common summer 

 resident at Montreal. Breeds in Mount Royal park. Nests with 

 eggs found from May 17th to June 9th. Observed from April 3rd 

 to October 8th. (Wintle.) Common summer resident in the 

 Ottawa district; usually building its nest close to houses or on the 

 veranda. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Abundant summer resi- 

 dent in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. (/. H. Fleming.) 

 One specimen observed at Dog lake, northern Ontario, May 30th, 

 1896. (Spreadborough.) Very common everywhere in Ontario 

 and one of the first arrivals in spring, when the weather is still cold. 

 (Rev. C. J. Young.) Rare summer resident in Manitoba, one or 

 two pairs seen each season ; usually nests under bridges at Winnipeg ; 

 tolerably common (apparently?) as far west as Qu'Appelle. (See 

 E. T. Seton, p. 560.) Spreadborough spent a summer at Indian 

 Head, about ten miles south of Qu'Appelle, and never saw or heard 

 one, and I am led to believe that the pair noted at Qu'Appelle and 

 at Oak point, Lake Manitoba, was Contopus virens and not Sayornis 

 phoebe as the observer thought. (Macoun.) Apparently not com- 

 mon at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan; only one specimen 

 secured. (Nutting.) A pair had a nest beneath the wharf at Nor- 

 way House, Keewatin, and several more nests were observed on 

 June 28th, as we were passing through Hell Gate. The nests were 

 placed on the cliffs overhanging the water. (Preble.) 



First saw one April 19th, 1897, at Edmonton, Alta., next on May 

 7th, nesting under a bridge, nest built of weeds and moss, lined with 

 grass and horse hair, rather bulky. On June 2nd, found a nest with 

 five eggs in a coal-shed. (Spreadborough.) First noticed at Atha- 

 baska Landing 23rd May, 1888. The commonest bird up the Atha- 

 baska to Lesser Slave river. Eggs had been incubated about a 



