CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 3/9 



Ijreeding species in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) Rather rare in Algonquin park, Ont. ; only a few speci- 

 mens seen in two months in 1900. {Spreadboroiigh.) The most 

 -common flycatcher in the country regions of southwestern Ontario 

 with the exception of the kingbird. {W. E. Saunders.) A tolerably 

 common summer resident of woods in the vicinity of Winnipeg, but 

 more abundant to the north. {E. T. Seton.) Only noticed at Pem- 

 l)ina (lat. 49°), which is probably at or near its northwestern limit. 

 {Coues.) This is the pewee of the deeper woods and is a regular 

 breeding species on the banks of the Assiniboine river as far west as 

 Fort Ellice, Man. {Atkinson.) 



Breeding Notes. — Quite common in beech and maple groves in 

 the county of Leeds, Ont., and around Kingston. I have frequently 

 seen the nest, sometimes as late as July 15th, usually on the upper 

 side of a bough of a beech tree, but occasionally on a maple. I never 

 •saw more than three eggs in a nest, several times only two. {Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Mr. A. C. McKeand found a nest of this flycatcher 

 •containing three eggs, June 26th, 1885, in Mount Royal park; the 

 nest was attached to the fork of a small horizontal branch of a tree 

 growing on the top of the mountain. The nest of this bird is a 

 difficult one to discover as it is generally built upon a thick horizontal 

 branch. {Wintle.) This species breeds at Kew beach, Toronto. It 

 seldom lays more than three eggs in a beautifully built nest, exter- 

 nally covered with pieces of lichen after the manner of the ruby- 

 throated hummingbird. {W. Raine.) This nest is placed on a 

 branch where it looks like a knot, or at the end of it on the twigs. 

 It is made of threads of bark, fine grass, pine or hair, held together 

 by spiders' webs, the exterior and brim being covered with lichens. 

 Outside diameter 3 inches; inside diameter 2-2h inches by 5-f of an 

 inch in depth. I have found them in maples, oaks, elms and coni- 

 ferous trees at an elevation varying from 5 to 50 feet. They con- 

 tained two or three eggs. On the 3rd of July, 1897, I found a nest 

 with young birds, and on the 21st two new eggs were in this nest. 

 I took three eggs from it on the 26th. (.4. L. Garneau.) 



462. Western Wood Pewee. 



Myiochanes ricJiardsonii (Swains.) Ridgw. 1907. 

 Audubon, Vol. I., p. 220, states that he found it breeding in 

 Labrador. {Packard.) A tolerably common summer resident in 



