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Ottawa in 1904 and one shot. In the summer of 1906 he saw about 

 ten frequenting the same spot. (Rev. G. Eijrig.) 



This bird breeds commonly in the county of Leeds, near Lans. 

 downe, Ont. I have found the nest in a small thick hemlock about 

 18 inches above the ground on the 19th May, and on the ground, 

 with four eggs, as early as the 6th May. It appears usually to raise 

 a second brood. In eastern Ontario it resorts to the same kind of 

 location as the fox sparrow frequents on the Magdalen islands, 

 preferring second growth woods and old clearings grown up with 

 brambles and brush. It has a preference for broken, uneven ground. 

 It arrives about the middle of April and is one of the last birds to 

 leave in the fall. I have seen it as late as the end of September. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young.) Summer resident at Toronto, Ont. First seen 

 at Port Sydney, Muskoka, by Mr. Kay, in 1887; they bred there in 

 1891 ; reported rare at Beaumaris in 1897 by Mr. Taverner. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) Fairly common summer resident at Guelph, Ont, 

 Arrives about April 20th and leaves about October 8th. (A. B. 

 Klugh.) Common summer resident about London, Ont., arriving 

 early, sometimes in March, and averaging April i6th. Although 

 so common at London it is much less so in north Bruce, although 

 it appears to be more common now in that district than it was 10 

 years ago. The nests are placed on the ground, in shrubs, and 

 occasionally in brush heaps. Two broods are often reared in a 

 season usually consisting of four in the first and three in the second. 

 {W. E. Saunders.) This is one of the species which apparently 

 enters Ontario from the southwest, for on looking at the dates of its 

 arrival at London and Chatham we find it is always there before it 

 reaches Hamilton, while at Ottawa, Mr. White has not met with it at 

 all. (Mcllwraith.) A common summer resident at Penetanguishene, 

 Ont. {A. F. Young.) 



A common summer resident in sheltered scrub lands in south- 

 ern Manitoba and northwest to Carberry. (E. T. Seton.) This 

 bird was not uncommon about Pembina, where it was breeding in 

 June. A nest was taken, July nth, containing two eggs that be- 

 longed in it, together with three that did not, having been deposited 

 by the cowbirds. {Coues.) A regular and fairly abundant breeding 

 species in favorable districts throughout Manitoba. Noted in 1906 

 at Sidney, Birtle and Ellice, Man., and at Touchwood hills, Sask. 

 {Atkinson.) 



