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Breeding Notes. — Mr. G. F. Dippie and myself have both 

 received eggs and skins of this bird from Red Deer, Alta. ; on June 

 3rd, 1898, Mr. Wenman found a nest on the Red Deer river, it 

 contained four eggs and was buih in a poplar five feet from the 

 ground. (W. Raine.) 



608. Scarlet Tanager- 



Piranga eryth romelas Vieill . 1 8 1 9 . 



A few occur in the spring in Nova Scotia. (Doivns.) Very rare 

 summer visitor to the Annapolis valley, N.S. (H. F. Tufts.) A 

 very rare summer resident in New Brunswick ; has been taken at the 

 Grand falls of the St. John. (Chamberlain.) A rare summer visitor 

 at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at 

 Lorette; a rare summer visitor around Quebec. (Dionne.) A 

 transient visitant, but common around Montreal; I have not seen 

 it in the autumn. (Wintle.) 



Moderately common summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Decidedly more abundant at Ottawa than 

 formerly. (Rev. E. Eifrig. This handsome bird occasionally breeds 

 nearLansdowne, Ont., and I suppose in the county of Renfrew, where 

 I have seen it in summer; I once found a nest in June, 1899, built 

 in a bushy second growth maple about seven feet from the ground, 

 not far from the Grand Trunk railway at Lansdowne. (Rev. C. J- 

 Young.) A common summer resident in the districts of Parry- 

 Sound and Muskoka; breeds in hardwood bush. Regular migrant 

 at Toronto, Ont., sometimes common. (/. H. Fleming.) Not 

 rare in Algonquin park, Ont. in summer. (Spreadborough.) A 

 common summer resident in Middlesex and North Bruce, Ont. 

 (W. E. Saunders.) Fairly common summer resident at Guelph, 

 Ont.; arrives about May 12th, leaves about September 15th. (A, 

 B. Klugh.) A common and breeding summer resident at Pene- 

 tanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) Not uncommon in eastern 

 Manitoba; known to breed on the shores of the south end of Lake 

 Winnipeg; has been seen as far west as Qu'Appelle in southeastern 

 Saskatchewan. (E. T. Seton.) A regular though not common 

 migrant at Portage la Prairie, Man. (Atkinson.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nest at Ottawa on the horizontal bough of 

 a tree; it is rather a large affair, composed of twigs, fibres and 



