CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 695 



Royal, containing three eggs, May 24th, 1890; not observed in the 

 autumn, and think it must be an early migrant in the fall. (Wintle.) 

 A moderately common summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Common in suitable places in eastern Ontario. 

 A common breeding bird on Wolfe island, near Kingston, Ont. (Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Regular summer resident at Toronto, Ont. Mr. Kay 

 records one from Port Sydney, Muskoka, taken on May 7th, 1890; 

 I am sure it occurs at Emsdale, Parry Sound, but have not been able 

 to take one. (/. H. Fleming.) An uncommon summer resident at 

 Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) A common summer resident in 

 southwestern Ontario, but noted sparingly in the north; nests are 

 usually made on the ground, often in a brush heap and sometimes 

 in shrubs. Eggs, three or four; rarely five; two broods are often 

 raised in a season near London, Ont. (W. E. Saunders.) A common 

 summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. ; have found their nests 

 situated very near the ground in rose bushes. (A. F. Young.) 



Observ^ed at Pembina, which appears to be near the northern 

 limit of the distribution of this species ; a nest containing four eggs 

 was found at Pembina late in June. (Coues.) A common summer 

 resident of partly open country, more especially in the southern sec- 

 tions of Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) A common summer resident at 

 Aweme, Manitoba; arrives about May loth and leaves about the 

 middle of September. (Criddle.) A regularly breeding, but not 

 common species in Manitoba and the w^est, being most abundant 

 along the heavier wooded river courses; noted west to Touchwood 

 hills, Sask., in 1906. (Atkinson.) Uncommon in the timber belts 

 of southwestern Saskatchewan in 1906. (A. C. Bent.) First seen 

 at Medicine Hat., Sask., May 12th, 1894; later they came in numbers 

 and by May 22nd, were very common; in b\ishes in the creek and 

 river valleys. May 30th; found a nest with four fresh eggs under a 

 log in a heap of dry brush; nest composed of sticks, lined with dry 

 grass ; other nests were taken low down in the brush in close thickets ; 

 one pair was seen late in June in brush along Swift Current creek, in 

 the east end of Cypress hills; observed in thickets at Old Wives 

 creek, at Wood mountain and in the Milk river valley and on Milk 

 river ridge, in southern Alberta, in 1895 ; observed one individual at 

 Moose mountain, almost at timber line, about forty miles southwest 

 of Calgary, July ist, 1897; several seen further south on July 15th, 

 near the source of Elbow river. (Spreadborough.) This species was 



