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Macoun.) A rare migrant in spring at Quebec. {Dionne.) I con- 

 sider this species an irregular spring migrant, and have not met with 

 them here in the autumn. {Wintle.) 



A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have seldom seen this bird in eastern Ontario. 

 I found this to be the commonest warbler by far in Magdalen islands 

 in June, 1897; I found four nests all built in bushy spruce trees at 

 from two to five feet from the ground ; they are late birds to arrive 

 there and do not commence to build until the middle of June; I 

 noticed that the eggs were almost all blotched with dark umber 

 brown as well as spotted and speckled like the last species. {Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Regular migrant at Toronto, Ont., not very common. 

 (/. H. Fleming.) The black-polls seem very local at Toronto, as, 

 though I have found them decidedly abundant during the last two 

 years in a particularly nice little patch of tall willows near the lake 

 shore, I do not know of any one else having noted a single specimen. 

 May 1 5th is the earliest date on which I have seen them — three males 

 appearing then, and increasing in numbers till 26th May, when the 

 first females were seen; by 2nd of June all had passed on; my 

 earliest fall note is 27th August, and from this date on the numbers 

 daily increase till the trees are almost alive with their weak call- 

 notes. While with us in the spring the males keep up their some- 

 what insect-like notes at intervals during the whole day, as they 

 glide from branch to branch — not dashing and darting about with 

 the vim that is so characteristic of many members of this family. 

 (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont.; not com- 

 mon. {A. B. Klugh.) Abundant migrant in fall but not very 

 common in spring at London, Ont. (W. E. Saunders.) Observed 

 several on the east coast of James bay in 1904. {Spreadborough.) 

 Taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. {Clarke.) At Oxford House, 

 June 30th to July 4th they were rather common; on July loth we 

 noticed a pair in a thicket that bordered Hayes river, a few miles 

 above York Factory, and on arriving at that post we again found 

 the birds rather common; at Fort Churchill, where they were also 

 common we took another specimen, July 24th, 1901. {E. A. Preble.) 



One specimen of this species was procured at Wood Mountain on 

 the 49th parallel by Dr. G. M. Dawson, Geologist of the English 

 Commission. {Coues.) A rare migrant in Manitoba; probably 



