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B.C.; three at Chilliwack, B.C.; three at Victoria and Comox, Van- 
couver Island, all by Mr. Spreadborough. ; 
466a. Alder Flycatcher. 
Empidonax traillii alnorum BREWST. 1895. 
Not a very common summer migrant in Newfoundland ; fre- 
quents woods in the neighbourhood of houses. (Reeks.) A 
rather common summer resident in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Com- 
mon in margins of woods at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton 
Island, July, 1898 ; one taken at Mount Stewart, Prince Edward 
Island, July 11th, 1888. (AZacoun.) A few seen at Tignish, Prince 
Edward Island, in their favourite haunts, the alders. (Dwight.) 
An uncommon summer resident in New Brunswick. (Chamber- 
lain.) A tolerably common summer resident at Scotch Lake, | 
York Co., N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at Beauport ; a summer 
resident in Quebec. (Dzonne.) A scarce summer resident in the 
Montreal district; breeds in Mount Royal Park, where I have 
found their nests with eggs from June Ioth to July 30th, for several 
years past. (Windle.) A common summer resident in the Ottawa 
district. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Rather rare near London, 
but more common to the north and east. (W. £. Saunders.) Not 
common in Algonquin Park, Ont.; only a few seen on the 
Madawaska River below Cache Lake. (Spreadborough.) JI took 
a male at Emsdale in Muskoka, on May 29th, 1899. Mr. Kay has 
taken the nest of this species at Port Sydney, in the same district. 
(J. H. Fleming.) One specimen taken and others seen at Lesser 
Slave River, Athabasca, May 23rd, 1888. (/J. WZ. Macoun.) First 
seen May 26th, 1897, at Edmonton, Alta. ; common by June 2nd. 
It is always found in the clumps of willow and alder and never in 
heavy timber. (Spreadborough.) Flycatchers referred to a/norum, 
were several times observed by us at Norway House, Keewatin, 
but we were unable to secure one. (Predbles.) We first found this 
species at Fort Selkirk, where the Pelly and Lewes unite to form 
the Yukon, in Lat. 62°.50’, and hardly lost it again until we 
reached Circle city ; later I heard one 15 miles below Fort Yukon, 
Alaska, August 21st, 1899. (Bzshop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—The variety recently called the “alder 
flycatcher” is the species usually met with along the St. Lawrence 
and northward. I would observe that this name is very appro- 
priate. I have commonly met with the bird in moist, low situa- 
