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city of London, Ont. itself than in the country a few miles out. 

 One hears it in nearly every shaded street. (W. E. Saunders.) Very 

 abundant everywhere in Algonquin park, Ont., July, 1900. {Spread- 

 borough.) A nest containing well incubated eggs was collected 

 near the south end of Oxford lake, Keewatin, on the morning of 

 June 30th ; the female bird was taken with the eggs. (Preble.) 



Very abundant at Pembina and west to Turtle mountain, in lat. 

 49°, beyond which it was not seen. (Coues.) A very abundant 

 summer resident of open groves extending its range throughout the 

 wooded part of the province of Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) Common 

 at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan. (Nutting.) Next to 

 the kingbird "the commonest flycatcher all over Manitoba and west 

 to Edmonton. (Atkinson.) Abundant about A weme, Man. (Criddle.) 

 The commonest flycatcher in the timber at Skull and Maple creeks, 

 Sask. (A. C. Bent.) First seen at Indian Head, Sask., May 27th, 

 1892, later they became fairly common and bred in numbers in the 

 vicinity of Deep lake; collected at Medicine Hat and Crane lake, 

 Sask., in June, 1894; abundant on Old Wives creek, Sask., at its 

 mouth, May 24th, 1895; this species was seen all the way up Old 

 Wives creek and at Wood Mountain Post; a small flycatcher was 

 seen at Farwell creek, Cypress hills, Sask., which may have been 

 this species; taken at Canmore, Alta., within the Rocky mountains, 

 but replaced at Banff by Wright's flycatcher. First seen at Edmon- 

 ton, Alta., May 12th, 1897, common next day; abundant from Lesser 

 Slave lake to Peace River, Alta., in 1903; in the foothills southwest 

 of Calgary, common in July. (Spreadborough.) North to Fort 

 Simpson on the Mackenzie; common. (Ross.) 



Breeding Notes. — A bird almost resembling the last, but a 

 trifle smaller. It breeds commonly in the counties of Leeds and 

 Renfrew, selecting a very different locality from traillii for its nest. 

 It is a famiHar bird, frequenting orchards and the vicinity of houses, 

 as well as the second growth woods. The nests I have seen re- 

 semble a redstart's and were built in the crotch of a maple and of 

 apple trees. They contained four yellowish white eggs,' "which were 

 laid about the end of May, about two weeks earlier than the last. 

 It is also very common in the neighbourhood of Sharbot lake, where, 

 in 1903, I noticed five nests close to one another. (Rev. C. J. Young.) 

 I found it common on my arrival, the ist of June, and during that 

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