CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 567 



(W. H. Moore.) Observed at Point du Chene, N.B., where a colony 

 occupied a martin's box in the village. {Brewster.) A common 

 summer resident around Quebec. (Dionne.) A common summer 

 resident at Montreal; breeds in the city. (Wintle.) One observed 

 in August in the vicinity of Windsor, N.S. (H. F. Tufts.) 



A common summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) This bird breeds readily in bird boxes placed against a 

 house as well as under the eaves of buildings and similar places. 

 It is common in Leeds, Lanark and Renfrew counties, but seems to 

 be decreasing in numbers. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Regular summer 

 resident at Toronto ; local and decreasing. Reported as increasingly 

 common at Bracebridge, and in the settled parts of Muskoka by 

 Mr. Taverner. (/. H. Fleming.) A few breed in the cities, and an 

 odd pair in some of the villages around Guelph; arrives about May 

 loth and leaves about August ist. (A. B. Klugh.) A common 

 summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) Rare 

 summer resident in Manitoba ; breeding in pairs but seldom in num- 

 bers; have been taken breeding on Lake Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) 

 I was rather surprised to find martins breeding at Turtle mountain, 

 on the 49th parallel, having observed none at Pembina. (Coues.) 

 First seen at Indian Head, Sask., May 24th, 1892, they soon become 

 tolerably common and remained, breeding in hollow trees; first 

 arrivals at Medicine Hat, Sask., May i6th, 1894, breeding in the 

 river valley in old trees ; observed two at the crossing of the McLeod 

 river, north of Edmonton, June 19th, 1898; tolerably common in the 

 streets at Victoria, Vancouver island; first seen May 8th, 1893, and 

 on May 28th, 1887; observed several in the dead woods north of 

 Peace river, near White Mud river, lat. 56° 20' in June, 1903. 

 {Spreadhorough.) Not uncommon but local near Prince Albert, 

 Sask. ; noted breeding every year in great numbers in the dead trees 

 of a willow and poplar thicket among marshes. (Coubeaux.) Only 

 one specimen, a male taken at Victoria, was secured ; it is difficult 

 to state if it belongs to the eastern or western form. (Rhoads.) 

 Common in the vicinity of Vancouver, B.C., and breeding in num- 

 bers in 1894. (E. F. G. White.) 



Breeding Notes. — I observed this species June 29th, 1886, nest- 

 ing in the city, in a bird house placed on top of a pole erected on a 

 shed in rear of St. Joseph Drug Hall, No. 2241, Notre Dame street, 



