CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 633 



spring of 1889, on 29th May, on the bank of Calabogie lake, Ren- 

 frew CO. ; it was built near the top of a cedar against the stem, about 

 eight or nine feet from the ground and close to the water, and on 

 that date contained four fresh eggs; I easily identified the bird by 

 its white throat and other characteristic markings; though I often 

 saw the bird in the interval I did not again meet with its nest until 

 June nth, 1902, when I found a nest in a second growth of white 

 pine on an island in Gull lake, Frontenac co., Ont. ; at this date it 

 contained three young birds, recently hatched; on the i6th June I 

 found another nest on an island in Sharbot lake ; it was just like the 

 first one I found close to the water and about seven feet from the 

 ground; the nest is large for the bird, built of dead twigs of spruce 

 and hemlock with some fibrous roots, and lined with grass, feathers, 

 rootlets, etc., the feathers in each nest being a special feature; out- 

 side it somewhat resembles the nest of the purple finch. {Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) 



The first warbler to arrive in spring at Scotch Lake, N.B., coming 

 about the first of May and staying mostly about young growth woods 

 or bushy pastures; they are fairly common during migration, and 

 some seasons stay to breed; one nest was placed six feet up in a 

 tamarac bush and contained four eggs. {W. H. Moore.) Nests 

 found around Ottawa in May and June, saddled on the middle of a 

 branch six feet from the ground in a large fir tree or at the summit of 

 a small cedar tree ten feet high ; they are made of twigs and rootlets 

 covered with spider webs or a little plant down and lined with feathers 

 and hairs; in some the feathers hide the eggs, in others the hairs are 

 over the feathers ; nest 4x2 and 2 x 1.50, (Garneau.) On the i8th 

 June, 1882, I discovered for the first time in my experience, a nest 

 of the myrtle warbler; it was in a low, black ash timbered swamp, 

 where there was intermingling of other soft woods and conifers, near 

 where I had found a bay -breasted warbler the year before, and of 

 whose nest I was again in search, when I espied in a low balsam, 

 about four feet from the ground, a nest with the mother bird seated 

 upon it; at first sight this avifaunian cradle, in situation, material 

 and construction, appeared like that of a chipping sparrow, but 

 when the bird flushed off on my near approach, and from a position 

 on a branch nearby, watched my movements, shifting uneasily and 

 uttering a few "chip"-like notes, I carefully noted her plumage and 

 became certain of her identity as a female myrtle warbler. This 



