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says this species breeds on Montreal island, as he has seen them on 

 the eastern part of the island in July. (Wintle.) Seldom met with 

 around Quebec in summer; taken at Beauport. (Dionne.) A rare, 

 irregular spring migrant in May and June. A pair was observed 

 gathering nest material, June 15th, 1902, at Scotch Lake, N.B. {W. 

 H. Moore.) 



A moderately common migrant around Ottawa. (Ottawa Natur- 

 alist, Vol. V.) An uncommon warbler in eastern Ontario; I saw 

 one specimen in the grass at Lansdowne, Leeds co., Ont. A few 

 breed on the Magdalen islands. I obtained a nest with four eggs 

 taken there in June, 1898, ten feet from the ground, in a spruce tree. 

 The eggs are fully as large as those of the black-poll warbler, but are 

 differently marked. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Not abundant in the 

 Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. I have met with it only during 

 migration. Regular spring migrant at Toronto, Ont., not very 

 common ; one fall record, a young female, August 24th, 1906. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) Though usually b}^ no means abundant I think no spring 

 season passes without a fair number visiting this locality. If they 

 pass this way in the fall in any numbers I think they do so in com- 

 pany with DJstriata, which they at this season much resemble, and so 

 are not noted. Occasionally in May they are unusually abundant — 

 my note for 19th May, i888, reading: "Heavy thunder storm about 

 3 a.m. and another at 6 a.m. Morning much milder than of late; 

 atmosphere very hazy. Vast influx of migrants, many of which 

 had no doubt been kept back by the cold nights the past week. Bay- 

 breasts were astonishingly numerous, and in fact, though it may 

 seem strange, although many of the common warblers were here in 

 full force, D. castanca was certainly the most numerous — so much 

 so in fact that at one time I counted no less than twelve feeding on 

 the ground at one time, and in the space of a few feet. The insects 

 had been beaten down by the previous night's storm. I also saw 

 several of these birds taking a dainty little bath in a puddle of water 

 in company with many birds of widely divergent habits. (/. 

 Hughes-Samuel.) Passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. Abundant 

 this fall (1903). Seen about May 15th, and again about August 27th. 

 (A. B. Klugh.) I found the nest of this species north of Waterloo,, 

 Ont., May 22nd, 1899 ; nest in a hemlock, five feet from the ground. 

 (W. Raine.) 



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