CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 677 



thickets around London, Ont. (W. E. Saunders.) Common sum- 

 mer resident at Guelph, Ont.; arrives about May nth, leaves about 

 August 28th. (A. B. Klugh.) 



A summer resident of wooded hillsides in Manitoba, but its habits 

 are not very well known; has been found more frequently to the 

 north of Manitoba. {E. T. Seton.) A rare summer resident at 

 Aweme, Manitoba; arrives about May 20th and leaves about last 

 of August. (Criddle.) A common migrant and tolerably common 

 breeding species under favourable conditions in Manitoba. (Atkin- 

 son.) A single specimen of this bird was killed in June at Cumber- 

 land House; it was in a dense thicket of alder, perched near the 

 ground. (Richardson.) One specimen secured at Grand Rapids and 

 another at Chemawawin, Saskatchewan river. (Nutting.) One 

 specimen taken at Moose Factory, James Bay, by Mr. Walter Hay- 

 don, in the summer of 1881. (E. A. Preble.) Not observed any- 

 where west of Manitoba except at Edmonton, Alta., where a few 

 were observed and one taken May 29th, 1897. (Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — ^June 12th, 1902, I found this bird nesting at 

 Rice lake, Ont. ; nest in a cavity of a fallen tree root in deep woods. 

 (W. Raine.) Nests near Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 100 miles 

 north of Ottawa, in June and July ; it is built on the ground in the 

 woods, and made of dried leaves, lined with fine grass, strips of bark 

 and hairs ; the walls are thin for a nest made of leaves. (Garneau.) 



On the 28th of May, when passing the "old root" of a fallen tree 

 I discovered the newly made nest of a small bird, which at first I 

 thought might be that of a mourning warbler, whose scolding notes 

 I heard near by; on the 5th June, when I thought the set of eggs 

 would be deposited I revisited the place ; on the nest sat the mother 

 bird, and there she remained until I almost touched her with my 

 hand, then she flushed out, making some attempts to draw off my 

 attention, and uttered a few sharp "chips" and I saw at once that 

 she was a Canadian warbler ; the nest then contained five eggs, and 

 incubation had begun; the nest was placed in a cavity among the 

 rocks, only a few inches above the more level earth, and was com- 

 posed of dry leaves, strips of bark, and other fine vegetable fibres, 

 and lined with some long horse hair ; when placed side by side with 

 that of M. varia previously described, I made this comparison of 

 the nests and their sets of eggs, after the latter are blown ; the nests — 



