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and fir and unquestionably nesting ; altogether we noticed about 

 twenty individuals during our stay. Osgood took an adult at the 

 southern end of Lake Marsh, July ist, and I an adult female and 

 a young female on the west shore of Lake Lebarge, July 14th. This 

 is a new species to the Yukon valley. (Bishop.) Accidental on 

 Vancouver island at Esquimault. {Ridgway.) 



Breeding Notes. — On the 14th June, as I was passing with a 

 team of horses attached to a wagon, along a roadway through the 

 above mentioned wood, my companion directed my attention to 

 the action of a small bird that was seen to flush almost from under 

 the horses' feet, and by her manner of running along the ground, 

 indicated that she had been disturbed off her nest. A little search 

 discovered her home, which contained three young just hatched out; 

 this was a nest of an oven bird, otherwise known as the accenator, 

 or golden-crowned thrush; it was partly sunk in the virgin mould, 

 amid dry leaves and some wild-flower stalks, and under a small 

 branch, and composed of dry leaves and decayed vegetable stalks, 

 and being covered over like a small hut, or oven, was so well con- 

 cealed that the passer-by, even in searching for it, could fail in most 

 cases to notice it, and this site was only a few inches from where the 

 horses and cattle had walked with heavy steps, and where the wheels 

 of the wagon had sunk deep in the soft earth; it contained three 

 young just hatched ; and the mother bird, in leaving it, acted more 

 like a mouse than a creature with w4ngs. (W. L. Kells.) A nest 

 with four eggs found on July ist, 1903, near Ottawa; it was under a 

 bed of dead leaves, roofed over, but with a side entrance, and had 

 the form of an oven ; the materials used were leaves and grass ; it was 

 six inches long, six inches wide and four inches high; the entrance 

 was three inches wide and one and a half inches high. (Ganieau.) 

 Breeds at Rice lake, and fairly common at Carleton Junction, Ont. ; 

 Mr. Kells has found it nesting at Listowel, in northern Ontario. (17. 

 Raine.) The four eggs of this bird are laid about the first part of 

 June in a dome-shaped nest of grasses and leaves placed on the 

 ground in woods of mixed growth. {W. H. Moore.) Nests in 

 woods, thickets and swamps at Guelph, Ont.; nest domed, varying 

 much in composition ; most nests are composed of dried grass, leaves, 

 twigs and plant stems, lined with leaves and a little hair, the dome 

 being composed of fine wiry grass; some nests are composed almost 

 entirely of pine needles; eggs mostly five in number, pinky- white. 



