CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 127 
Mr. John Bates shot a pair at the end of May, 1857, on a creek 
near Hamilton water-works. These are the only birds of this 
species ever seen in Ontario. (Mcl/wraith.) 
187. White-faced Glossy Ibis. 
Plegadts guarauna (Linn.) Rripew. 1878. 
Found as a rare stragglerin British Columbia. Only two speci- 
mens known to have been taken in that province; one on Salt 
Spring Island in the Gulf of Georgia, and the other at the mouth 
of the Fraser River. (Fannin.) 
Famity XVI. ARDEIDA Herons, Bitrerns, &c. 
LXX. BOTAURUS Hermann. 1783. 
150, American Bittern. 
Botaurus lentiginosus (MONTAG.) STEPH. I81Ig. 
This species is only a straggler in Greenland but is a summer 
migrant in Newfoundland. It breeds in Prince Edward Island, 
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario and _ north- 
ward to Hudson Bay, in all suitable localities. 
Westward it becomes more abundant and is found commonly 
from Manitoba to the Pacific, never being seen in flocks but 
turning up in all marshes and in weedy brooks. Richardson 
Says it is common in the interior up to the fifty-eight parallel, 
and Bernard Ross says it descends the Mackenzie to the Arctic 
Sea. Although it is abundant in British Columbia we have no 
record of its occurrence in Alaska. 
BREEDING Nores.—Nests in the reeds and grass in nearly all 
marshes. On June 29th, 1892, found anest at Indian Head, Assa., 
containing five eggs. The nest was built on a mass of last year’s 
rushes about eighteen inches above th2 water and consisted of 
the same materials. The bird feeds upon mice, snakes, frogs and 
almost anything that has life and that it is able to swallow. 
(Spreadborougn.) 
A pair breeds every year in Ashbridge’s Bay, Toronto, Ont. 
This species lays five eggs, occasionally six. (Raine.) 
I have found the nest of this species four times in the County 
of Leeds, Ont. The bird lays its eggs very regularly about the 
