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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 129 
(Wintle.) A summer resident near Ottawa. Known to build. 
(Ot. Nat.) A regular summer resident in Southern Ontario. 
(Mcllwrath.) Accidental in Manitoba. (Thompson.) One 
specimen taken at Crane Lake, Assa., in June, 1894, by Mr. W. 
Spreadborough. 
BREEDING Notes.—At Hamilton Bay, Ontario, it is a regular 
summer resident, raising its young in the most retired parts of 
the marsh. The nest is large for the size of the bird, a platform 
being made for its support by bending down the flags till they 
cross each other a foot or more above the water-level. The 
whole affair is very loose and readily falls asunder at the close of 
the season. (Wcllwraith.) The Little Bittern breeds in Ash- 
bridge Bay, Toronto, and lays five eggs. (Razne.) 
A bird that is met with sparingly in suitable places near the St. 
feawrence, for example, at Escott Pond, Leeds Co., Ont. ; the 
neighbourhood of Gananoque Lake, and around Kingston, Ont. 
It is not a regular visitant ; some years scarcely one is noticed, for 
this bird makes its presence evident by its peculiar call. The 
nest is hard to find. I found one at the first-mentioned place, the 
gth June, 1892. It was built amongst a very thick growth of last 
year’s flags, about eighteen inches above the water, supported by 
the matted vegetation and formed of the dead flag leaves, but quite 
dry. It contained at that date six bluish-white eggs, quite fresh. 
(Rev. C.J. Young.) Not uncommon in all the large marshes in 
western Ontario. (W. Saunders.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two taken in Toronto marsh by Mr. S. Herring in 1867; also 
one set of eggs taken on St. Clair Flats, near Chatham, Ont., June 
Ist, 1896. Presented by Mr. W. Saunders. 
191.1. Cory’s Least Bittern. 
Ardetta neoxena Cory. 1886. 
Mr. Cory published the description of this bird in 1886 and on 
May 18th, 1891, Mr. Wm. Cross of Toronto procured a specimen 
which had been shot in Toronto marsh. A second specimen was 
taken in the same place on May 2oth, 1893, by a fisherman named 
Ramsden, as recorded by Mr. MclIlwraith, and Mr. Raine inform- 
ed me, in the spring of 1898, that “upwards” of a dozen 
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