348 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. ‘. 
do on Mount Royal near Montreal. (Rev. C.J. Young.) On June 
20th, 1893, at Long Lake, Manitoba, I found a nest and two eggs 
of this bird. The nest was like a large wood pewee’s and saddled 
on to the limb of a tree eight feet from the ground. (W. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Six; three taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains, one at Revel- 
stoke, B.C., one at Chilliwack, B.C., and one at Victoria, Van- 
couver Island, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 
Two sets of three eggs each, both taken at Wolfville, N.S., by 
Mr. H. Tufts. One was taken on June 6th, 1898. The nest was 
ona spreading horizontal branch of a spruce 25 feet from the 
ground and about three feet from the trunk. It was composed ot 
twigs and small vines with rootlets. The other was taken June 
17th, 1894. It was on a spreading fir limb about 30 feet from the 
ground. The nest was composed of twigs lined with grass. 
461. Wood Pewee. 
7 Contopus virens (LINN.) CaB. 1855. 
Audubon, Vol. I., p. 233, records it (probably erroneously) from 
Labrador. (Packard.) Jam inclined to believe that this is the 
bird that Mr. Reeks names Sayornus phebe and also the same that 
Mr. Turner referred to and that Mr. Packard is in error in referr- 
ing it to Contopus richardsonu. (Macoun.) 
Common summer resident in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Shot in 
Brackley Point woods, Prince Edward Island, August 22nd, 1888. 
(Macoun.) Not common, though now and then met with in cer- 
tain localities in Prince Edward Island. (Dwight.) Common 
summer resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Tolerably 
common summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. Nests 
built on horizontal limbs from 10 to 50 feet from the ground. (W. #7. 
Moore.) Weard in the valley of the Restigouche, N.B. (Bvittain 
& Cox.) Summer resident in Quebec. (Dzonne.) Common sum- 
mer resident around Montreal; breeds in Mount Royal Park. 
(Wintle.) 
Common summer resident in the Ottawa district. (Ottawa Na- 
turalist, Vol. V.) A common breeding species in Muskoka and 
Parry Sound districts. (/. H. Fleming.) Rather rare in Algon- 
quin Park, Ont. Only a few specimens seen in two months in 
1900. (Spreadborough.) A tolerably common summer resident of 
